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From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>,
	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] tracing: Prevent trace_marker being bigger than unsigned short
Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2024 15:26:47 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240302152647.06d96616@rorschach.local.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHk-=wj376WMgZ24wKGEWDs_ojNtod-LDZBedPzDYRRcY60UYA@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, 2 Mar 2024 09:24:37 -0800
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> Honestly, I suspect that a sane limit for tracing strings is likely on
> the order of tens or maybe hundreds of bytes.

BTW, the max used to be 1K, and I've had people ask me to increase it,
as they build up a log in their own buffer, and then do a "dump" into
the trace_marker when an anomaly happens in their application, when
reading it out, they did not like how it was broke up.

-- Steve

      parent reply	other threads:[~2024-03-02 20:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-03-02 16:12 [GIT PULL] tracing: Prevent trace_marker being bigger than unsigned short Steven Rostedt
2024-03-02 17:24 ` Linus Torvalds
2024-03-02 19:59   ` Steven Rostedt
2024-03-02 20:25     ` Linus Torvalds
2024-03-02 20:33     ` Linus Torvalds
2024-03-02 20:47       ` Steven Rostedt
2024-03-02 20:55         ` Linus Torvalds
2024-03-03 12:59           ` Steven Rostedt
2024-03-03 13:02             ` Steven Rostedt
2024-03-03 17:38             ` Linus Torvalds
2024-03-03 19:07               ` Steven Rostedt
2024-03-03 20:09                 ` Linus Torvalds
2024-03-03 21:00                   ` Steven Rostedt
2024-03-04 21:42                     ` Steven Rostedt
2024-03-04 21:50                       ` Linus Torvalds
2024-03-04 22:10                         ` Steven Rostedt
2024-03-04 23:20                           ` Linus Torvalds
2024-03-04 23:47                             ` Steven Rostedt
2024-03-04 23:52                               ` Steven Rostedt
2024-03-05  0:17                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2024-03-05  0:43                                   ` Steven Rostedt
2024-03-05  1:20                                     ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2024-03-02 20:26   ` Steven Rostedt [this message]

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