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author Steven Moreland <smoreland@google.com> 2021-01-05 18:48:52 +0000
committer Automerger Merge Worker <android-build-automerger-merge-worker@system.gserviceaccount.com> 2021-01-05 18:48:52 +0000
commitdb1696ee2103a9288281e8d2750e5b5fedec23e3 (patch)
tree42e08cec0817b774dbf9276a1e77a2917b69f621
parentb5de515afa28056092e73f1425304c7b54f7f09e (diff)
parente51328b36c495aa85b740cef7d835c0a22564c56 (diff)
Merge "TransactionTooLargeException: doc clarification" am: e51328b36c
Original change: https://android-review.googlesource.com/c/platform/frameworks/base/+/1537983 MUST ONLY BE SUBMITTED BY AUTOMERGER Change-Id: Idbcceec59b82cb8e6cba1af67d7b81297e1451b2
-rw-r--r--core/java/android/os/TransactionTooLargeException.java6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/core/java/android/os/TransactionTooLargeException.java b/core/java/android/os/TransactionTooLargeException.java
index 10abf26420f1..4d5b2a10f3fe 100644
--- a/core/java/android/os/TransactionTooLargeException.java
+++ b/core/java/android/os/TransactionTooLargeException.java
@@ -23,9 +23,11 @@ import android.os.RemoteException;
* During a remote procedure call, the arguments and the return value of the call
* are transferred as {@link Parcel} objects stored in the Binder transaction buffer.
* If the arguments or the return value are too large to fit in the transaction buffer,
- * then the call will fail and {@link TransactionTooLargeException} will be thrown.
+ * then the call will fail. {@link TransactionTooLargeException} is thrown as a
+ * heuristic when a transaction is large, and it fails, since these are the transactions
+ * which are most likely to overfill the transaction buffer.
* </p><p>
- * The Binder transaction buffer has a limited fixed size, currently 1Mb, which
+ * The Binder transaction buffer has a limited fixed size, currently 1MB, which
* is shared by all transactions in progress for the process. Consequently this
* exception can be thrown when there are many transactions in progress even when
* most of the individual transactions are of moderate size.