linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] tracing: Remove precision vsnprintf() check from print event

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Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2024 18:55:00 -0500
From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Linux Trace Kernel
 <linux-trace-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Masami Hiramatsu
 <mhiramat@...nel.org>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
 Sachin Sant <sachinp@...ux.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tracing: Remove precision vsnprintf() check from print
 event

On Mon, 4 Mar 2024 18:23:41 -0500
Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com> wrote:

> It appears to currently be limited by
> 
> #define TRACE_SEQ_BUFFER_SIZE   (PAGE_SIZE * 2 - \
>          (sizeof(struct seq_buf) + sizeof(size_t) + sizeof(int)))
> 
> checked within tracing_mark_write().

Yeah, I can hard code this to 8K as it handles output of complete events,
that can dump a lot of data, and then limit the trace_marker writes to be 4K.

-- Steve