Linux tracepoints for 32-bit code on a 64-bit kernel

So I was trying to use sysdig to see what a Windows application running under wine was doing, and sysdig was telling me nothing about it. A bug report and some investigating yielded the answer: Linux tracepoints do not work for 32-bit processes running on a 64-bit kernel. As a trivial example, you can build tst.c:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <fcntl.h>

int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
    while(1)
    {
        int fd = open("/dev/null", O_RDONLY);
        close(fd);
        sleep(1);
    }

    return 0;
}

natively: gcc -o tst tst.c, and sysdig will see the 3 syscalls here just fine. But building it in 32-bit mode with gcc -m32 -o tst tst.c makes sysdig blind. One doesn't even have to use sysdig. I tried to use tracepoints through the interface in /sys with the same results: events are seen without -m32, but cannot be seen with it:

root@shorty:/home/dima# cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing

root@shorty:/sys/kernel/debug/tracing# echo 'syscalls:sys_enter_open' >> /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/set_event

root@shorty:/sys/kernel/debug/tracing# echo 'common_pid == 16211' > events/syscalls/sys_enter_open/filter

root@shorty:/sys/kernel/debug/tracing# cat trace_pipe
^C

This may or may not be easy to fix, but this rabbithole probably runs deep, so I'm stopping here.