Re: [PATCH] soc/tegra: pmc: Don't allocate struct tegra_powergate on stack

From: Viresh Kumar
Date: Mon Apr 17 2017 - 01:51:00 EST


On 21-03-17, 16:09, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> On 21-03-17, 10:37, Jon Hunter wrote:
> >
> > On 21/03/17 05:24, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> > > The size of the struct tegra_powergate is quite big and if any more
> > > fields are added to the internal genpd structure, following warnings are
> > > thrown:
> > >
> > > drivers/soc/tegra/pmc.c:577:1: warning: the frame size of 1176 bytes is larger than 1024 bytes [-Wframe-larger-than=]
> >
> > Hmmm ... AFAICT the size of the tegra_powergate struct is 312 bytes
> > (based upon next-20170321) and so it looks like something massive needs
> > to be added to the genpd struct to blow this up to over 1024 bytes. Are
> > there some genpd changes in-flight that are causing this?
>
> https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=149000247329743&w=2
>
> This is up for discussion right now though and we don't know if it
> will surely get merged or not.

@Jon: Regardless of the above series, do you want this patch to be merged as it
will still be better to avoid keeping large structures on stack.

Else I would be required to keep this in my above series from now on.

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viresh