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

[Linus Torvalds]

On Sat, 2 Mar 2024 at 12:47, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I'm fine with just making it 4K with a comment saying that "4K is the
> minimum page size on most archs, and to keep this consistent for crazy
> architectures like PowerPC and it's 64K pages, we hard code 4K to keep
> all architectures acting the same".

4k is at least a somewhat sane limit, and yes, being hw-independent is
a good idea.

We have other strings that have that limit for similar reasons (ie PATH_MAX).

                Linus