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

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Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2024 15:47:13 -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>,
 Sachin Sant <sachinp@...ux.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] tracing: Prevent trace_marker being bigger than
 unsigned short

On Sat, 2 Mar 2024 12:33:01 -0800
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:

> And if you ever decide that a sane limit is ok, you can send that in.

I'm fine with just making it 4K with a comment saying that "4K is the
minimum page size on most archs, and to keep this consistent for crazy
architectures like PowerPC and it's 64K pages, we hard code 4K to keep
all architectures acting the same".

-- Steve