linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH workqueue/for-6.10-fixes] workqueue: Refactor worker ID formatting and make wq_worker

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Date: Thu, 23 May 2024 12:03:18 -0700
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@...il.com>, bpf <bpf@...r.kernel.org>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, 
	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...i.de>, Craig Small <csmall@....com.au>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
	Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH workqueue/for-6.10-fixes] workqueue: Refactor worker ID
 formatting and make wq_worker_comm() use full ID string

On Thu, 23 May 2024 at 10:25, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org> wrote:
>
> FYI, I would be happy to convert the tracing events over to dynamic strings.

I doubt it is worth it.

The reason I would want to clean up the existing random memcpy is not
so much because 15 characters wouldn't be enough for tracing, but
because it is just ugly how we have this bad hardcoded interface
without proper abstractions, and it would keep us from changing it.

           Linus