155fd6c3e2
The sched_switch and sched_waking events hardcoded the length of the comm it recorded because these events were created before the dynamic strings were implemented. Unfortunately, several other events copied this method. As the size of the comm may change in the future, make the string dynamic. The dynamic string requires a 4 byte meta data to hold the size and offset of the string. The amount stored in the ring buffer will then be the strlen(comm) + 5 (for the \n), and aligned to 4 bytes if there's no other strings. This means that a task comm can have up to 10 characters before it requires another 4 bytes in the ring buffer. Most tasks are usually less than that, so this should not be a problem, and it also allows the name to be extended over the TASK_COMM_LEN [1] Note, sched_switch and the sched_waking trace events still hardcode the length, as there is tooling that still requires that. An effort to update the tooling will be made to allow this to change in the future. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250507110444.963779-1-bhupesh@igalia.com/ Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Bhupesh <bhupesh@igalia.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250507133458.51bafd95@gandalf.local.home Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org> |
||
|---|---|---|
| Documentation | ||
| LICENSES | ||
| arch | ||
| block | ||
| certs | ||
| crypto | ||
| drivers | ||
| fs | ||
| include | ||
| init | ||
| io_uring | ||
| ipc | ||
| kernel | ||
| lib | ||
| mm | ||
| net | ||
| rust | ||
| samples | ||
| scripts | ||
| security | ||
| sound | ||
| tools | ||
| usr | ||
| virt | ||
| .clang-format | ||
| .clippy.toml | ||
| .cocciconfig | ||
| .editorconfig | ||
| .get_maintainer.ignore | ||
| .gitattributes | ||
| .gitignore | ||
| .mailmap | ||
| .rustfmt.toml | ||
| COPYING | ||
| CREDITS | ||
| Kbuild | ||
| Kconfig | ||
| MAINTAINERS | ||
| Makefile | ||
| README | ||
README
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.