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Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2024 20:59:43 -0500
From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] tracing: Have trace_marker writes be just half of
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On Mon, 4 Mar 2024 20:42:39 -0500
Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> wrote:

> #define TRACE_OUTPUT_META_DATA_MAX_LEN		80
> 
> and a runtime check in the code generating this header.
> 
> This would avoid adding an unchecked upper limit.

That would be a lot of complex code that is for debugging something that
has never happened in the past 16 years and Linus has already reprimanded
me on doing such things.

-- Steve