changes since v3 (per James): - change to return with existing value -ENOMEM - split doc part to a separate patch since they are going to be merged through separate trees. changes since v2: - remove unnecessary overflow check (per Peter) changes since v1: - drop out patch2 because it has been fixed on upstream (Thanks James for reminding) - move sanity check into rb_alloc_aux (per Leo) - add overflow check (per James) Shuai Xue (2): perf/core: Bail out early if the request AUX area is out of bound perf record: Update docs regarding the maximum limitation of AUX area kernel/events/ring_buffer.c | 3 +++ tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt | 3 +++ 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+) -- 2.39.3