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SubjectRe: [PATCH] tracing/lockdep: turn lock->name into an array

* Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 00:42 +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> > > +#define LOCK_NAME_SIZE 25
> >
> >
> >
> > This constant may look a bit weird.
> > I just started with the assumption that a full lock name
> > will rarely exceed this length.
> >
> > If you agree with it, I will expand the conversion of lockdep
> > TRACE_FORMAT to TRACE_EVENTS with the same assumption.
> > So that we will be able to use filters with locks events.
>
> I really really hate this.
>
> if you pick a size on the top end so that all lock->name's fit in,
> you're wasting heaps of space, if you pick a median length,
> everything will get truncated.
>
> If you're going to do a copy, just do the print into the buffer by
> using _FORMAT and be done with it.

what i suggested was a variable length field. That solves the size
issue. The ring-buffer supports variable size records anyway.

Ingo


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