linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] tracing: Prevent trace_marker being bigger than unsigned short

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Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2024 15:26:47 -0500
From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Masami Hiramatsu
 <mhiramat@...nel.org>, Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] tracing: Prevent trace_marker being bigger than
 unsigned short

On Sat, 2 Mar 2024 09:24:37 -0800
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-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