Re: [PATCH v2 5/8] soc: qcom: smd: Remove use of VLAIS

From: Bjorn Andersson
Date: Thu Sep 03 2015 - 13:02:45 EST


On Wed 02 Sep 15:46 PDT 2015, Stephen Boyd wrote:

> Usage of VLAIS prevents clang from compiling this file, and it
> also opens us to the possibility of allocating a large structure
> on the stack to the point that we blow past the limit of the
> kernel stack. Remove the VLAIS and allocate a structure on the
> heap with kmalloc so that we're safer and more clang friendly.
>
Reviewed-by: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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