Re: [PATCH] tracing/lockdep: turn lock->name into an array

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 00:42 +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> > > +#define LOCK_NAME_SIZE       25
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > This constant may look a bit weird.
> > I just started with the assumption that a full lock name
> > will rarely exceed this length.
> > 
> > If you agree with it, I will expand the conversion of lockdep
> > TRACE_FORMAT to TRACE_EVENTS with the same assumption.
> > So that we will be able to use filters with locks events.
> 
> I really really hate this.
> 
> if you pick a size on the top end so that all lock->name's fit in, 
> you're wasting heaps of space, if you pick a median length, 
> everything will get truncated.
> 
> If you're going to do a copy, just do the print into the buffer by 
> using _FORMAT and be done with it.

what i suggested was a variable length field. That solves the size 
issue. The ring-buffer supports variable size records anyway.

	Ingo