linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] lockdep: Allow tuning tracing capacity constants.

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Date:   Wed, 18 Nov 2020 15:23:57 +0100
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.sakura.ne.jp>
Cc:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] lockdep: Allow tuning tracing capacity constants.

On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 10:57:08PM +0900, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> Peter, do you have a plan to make this problem actionable?

I don't even know what the problem is.. nor do you. You can keep sending
this bad paper-over-issues patch until you're blue in the face, I'll not
take it for reasons I've explained before.

I've also previously said that the right way to go about this is to
figure out what exactly is consuming these resources and then figure out
how to cure _that_. Blindly increasing the number only enables bad
actors to get away with being bad.