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From: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
To: lkp@lists.01.org
Subject: Re: [sched.h] 317419b91e: perf-sanity-tests.Parse_sched_tracepoints_fields.fail
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2021 09:09:09 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <173454728.14036.1634216949862.JavaMail.zimbra@efficios.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALOAHbDGH1vp7a9BYLDKCCrh-W2205O707LXNM+Yvt5tQ7Swag@mail.gmail.com>

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----- On Oct 14, 2021, at 9:05 AM, Yafang Shao laoar.shao(a)gmail.com wrote:
[...]
>> If it happens that this ABI break is noticed by more than an in-tree test
>> program, then
>> the kernel's ABI rules will require that this trace field size stays unchanged.
>> This brings
>> up once more the whole topic of "Tracepoints ABI" which has been discussed
>> repeatedly in
>> the past.
>>
> 
> I will check if any other in-tree tools depends on TASK_COMM_LEN.

That's a start, but given this is a userspace ABI, out-of-tree userland
tools which depend of this to be fixed-size are also relevant.

Thanks,

Mathieu

-- 
Mathieu Desnoyers
EfficiOS Inc.
http://www.efficios.com

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From: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
To: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com>
Cc: acme <acme@kernel.org>, rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com>,
	0day robot <lkp@intel.com>, Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	lkp <lkp@lists.01.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com>,
	Qiang Zhang <qiang.zhang@windriver.com>,
	robdclark <robdclark@chromium.org>,
	christian <christian@brauner.io>,
	Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>,
	Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>,
	Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
	bristot <bristot@redhat.com>,
	aubrey li <aubrey.li@linux.intel.com>,
	yu c chen <yu.c.chen@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [sched.h] 317419b91e: perf-sanity-tests.Parse_sched_tracepoints_fields.fail
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2021 09:09:09 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <173454728.14036.1634216949862.JavaMail.zimbra@efficios.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALOAHbDGH1vp7a9BYLDKCCrh-W2205O707LXNM+Yvt5tQ7Swag@mail.gmail.com>

----- On Oct 14, 2021, at 9:05 AM, Yafang Shao laoar.shao@gmail.com wrote:
[...]
>> If it happens that this ABI break is noticed by more than an in-tree test
>> program, then
>> the kernel's ABI rules will require that this trace field size stays unchanged.
>> This brings
>> up once more the whole topic of "Tracepoints ABI" which has been discussed
>> repeatedly in
>> the past.
>>
> 
> I will check if any other in-tree tools depends on TASK_COMM_LEN.

That's a start, but given this is a userspace ABI, out-of-tree userland
tools which depend of this to be fixed-size are also relevant.

Thanks,

Mathieu

-- 
Mathieu Desnoyers
EfficiOS Inc.
http://www.efficios.com

  reply	other threads:[~2021-10-14 13:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-10-10 10:24 [PATCH v3 0/4] task_struct: extend task comm from 16 to 24 for CONFIG_BASE_FULL Yafang Shao
2021-10-10 10:24 ` [PATCH v3 1/4] connector: use __get_task_comm in proc_comm_connector Yafang Shao
2021-10-10 10:24 ` [PATCH v3 2/4] fs/exec: use strscpy instead of strlcpy in __set_task_comm Yafang Shao
2021-10-10 10:24 ` [PATCH v3 3/4] sched.h: extend task comm from 16 to 24 for CONFIG_BASE_FULL Yafang Shao
2021-10-10 12:52   ` kernel test robot
2021-10-10 13:05     ` Yafang Shao
2021-10-14  7:27   ` [sched.h] 317419b91e: perf-sanity-tests.Parse_sched_tracepoints_fields.fail kernel test robot
2021-10-14  7:27     ` kernel test robot
2021-10-14  9:24     ` Yafang Shao
2021-10-14  9:24       ` Yafang Shao
2021-10-14 12:42       ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2021-10-14 12:42         ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2021-10-14 13:05         ` Yafang Shao
2021-10-14 13:05           ` Yafang Shao
2021-10-14 13:09           ` Mathieu Desnoyers [this message]
2021-10-14 13:09             ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2021-10-14 13:11             ` Yafang Shao
2021-10-14 13:11               ` Yafang Shao
2021-10-14 13:50               ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2021-10-14 13:50                 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2021-10-14 14:40                 ` Yafang Shao
2021-10-14 14:40                   ` Yafang Shao
2021-10-14 14:48                   ` Steven Rostedt
2021-10-14 14:48                     ` Steven Rostedt
2021-10-14 15:05                     ` Yafang Shao
2021-10-14 15:05                       ` Yafang Shao
2021-10-14 16:14                   ` Kees Cook
2021-10-14 16:14                     ` Kees Cook
2021-10-15  2:05                     ` Yafang Shao
2021-10-15  2:05                       ` Yafang Shao
2021-10-15  2:14                       ` Steven Rostedt
2021-10-15  2:14                         ` Steven Rostedt
2021-10-15  2:20                         ` Yafang Shao
2021-10-15  2:20                           ` Yafang Shao
2021-10-19 16:51         ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2021-10-19 16:51           ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2021-10-20  4:01           ` Yafang Shao
2021-10-20  4:01             ` Yafang Shao
2021-10-10 10:24 ` [PATCH v3 4/4] kernel/kthread: show a warning if kthread's comm is truncated Yafang Shao

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