"Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I was looking at stack usage in drivers/media/video/v4l1-compat.c::
> v4l_compat_translate_ioctl(). It's 0x924 bytes on my peecee.
>
> It's fairly straightforward to change the stack space to
> kmalloc() space, but some of these functions (ioctls) are
> speed-critical, so I was wondering if the changes should still
> be done, or done only in some cases and not others, or wait
> until an oops is reported here....
>
Well the function is doing a memset() of 2k's worth of memory already,
so it presumably doesn't care much.
Your kmalloc will be a small cost compared with that.
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