Re: [PATCH v5 07/10] ring-buffer: Dynamically calculate max_data_size

Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-trace-kernel,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, 13 Aug 2026 14:11:49 +0100
Vincent Donnefort <[email protected]> wrote:

> The ring buffer order can be dynamically modified and temporarily
> disables writing to do so. It is therefore safe to use the updated value
> to calculate the maximum event size which can be written onto the ring
> buffer.
> 
> However, notice it is hardly making any difference for trace_marker
> because of the TRACE_MARKER_MAX_SIZE limit. For an 8KiB subbuf size,
> trace_marker can take 4096 characters while it can 'only' take 4054
> bytes for smaller subbufs.
> 
> Fixes: f9b94daa542a ("ring-buffer: Set new size of the ring buffer sub page")

Why the fixes tag? What is it fixing?

-- Steve

> Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort <[email protected]>
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