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

[Steven Rostedt]

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