[PATCH] sparse: increase MAX_STRING to 4096*3

Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]> Sat, 13 Jun 2026 16:53:47 +0200
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-sparse
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Sure, 12288 is just another "random" value, but with this change the
following command

	$ make C=2 CHECK="semind add --"

no longer emits the errors like

	./include/trace/events/vmscan.h:122:17: error: too long token expansion

It is not clear why (before this change) MAX_STRING is odd. I guess this
comes from the initial commit 7601387b02d9 ("C99 says strings should be up
to 4095 bytes."), but I don't think this is relevant at least after another
commit fbc8230fa8c4 ("Larger buffer size for token concatenation") which
increased MAX_STRING to 4096*2-1. And struct string / __alloc_string() do
not depend on the hardcoded constants anyway.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
---
 token.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/token.h b/token.h
index 9000e0cb..720ad0c3 100644
--- a/token.h
+++ b/token.h
@@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ struct token {
 	};
 };
 
-#define MAX_STRING 8191
+#define MAX_STRING (4096*3)
 
 static inline struct token *containing_token(struct token **p)
 {
-- 
2.52.0