Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] printk: Fix panic caused by passing log_buf_len to command line

[Sergey Senozhatsky]

On (09/21/18 09:37), Petr Mladek wrote:
> 
> I would personally keep the size as unsigned int. IMHO, a support
> for a log buffer bigger than 4GB is not worth the complexity.
> 

ftrace dumps are bothering me.

Steven Rostedt wrote [0]:
>
> Especially when I have a machine with 240 CPUs. But it also has a ton of
> RAM, I could easily do log_buf_len=32G
>

The systems are getting bigger, so log_buf_len=UINT_MAX+ might become
a norm at some point.

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	-ss