Re: [PATCH v7 00/11] extend task comm from 16 to 24
From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Date: 2021-11-01 16:06:48
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On Mon, 1 Nov 2021 17:02:12 +0100 Petr Mladek [off-list ref] wrote:
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I thought Steven[1] and Kees[2] have already clearly explained why we do it like that, so I didn't give any more words on it. [1]. https://lore.kernel.org/all/20211025170503.59830a43@gandalf.local.home/ (local)Steven was against switching task->comm[16] into a dynamically allocated pointer. But he was not against storing longer names separately.
Just to be clear. I was recommending that the comm[16] would still behave like it does today. Where it is truncated. But if the name is longer, it could be stored in a separate location if the caller wanted to know the full name. -- Steve