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Date:   Thu, 3 Aug 2023 10:53:42 +0200
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To:     Ze Gao <zegao2021@gmail.com>
Cc:     Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>,
        Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>,
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>,
        Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v6 3/5] sched, tracing: reorganize fields of switch
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On Thu, Aug 03, 2023 at 04:33:50AM -0400, Ze Gao wrote:
> Report prioritiy and prev_state in 'short' to save some buffer
> space. And also reorder the fields so that we take struct
> alignment into consideration to make the record compact.
> 
> Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
> Signed-off-by: Ze Gao <zegao@tencent.com>

I am really getting fed up with this. This again doesn't list any
reasons on why this is a sane thing to do.

Please review past discussions and collate the various things mentioned
into this Changelog.