Re: [PATCH workqueue/for-6.10-fixes] workqueue: Refactor worker ID formatting and make wq_worker_comm() use full ID string

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Thu May 23 2024 - 15:03:49 EST


On Thu, 23 May 2024 at 10:25, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> 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