Re: [PATCH] mm/damon/core: reduce kernel stack usage

[SeongJae Park]

On Thu, 11 Jun 2026 14:56:57 +0200 Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> 
> The main thread function has recently grown to the point of
> exceeding stack frame size warning limits in some configurations.
> This is what I hit on s390 with clang and CONFIG_KASAN:
> 
> mm/damon/core.c:3440:31: error: stack frame size (1352) exceeds limit (1280) in 'kdamond_fn' [-Werror,-Wframe-larger-than]
>  3440 | static int kdamond_fn(struct damon_ctx *ctx)
> 
> The largest stack usage here is inside of the kdamond_tune_intervals(),
> so by marking that one as noinline_for_stack, the functions individually
> stay below the warning limit, though kdamond_fn() itself still uses
> hundreds of kilobytes for some reason.

Thank you for this fix, Arnd!  I will also take a look in kdamond_fn() to see
if there are more things to reduce.

> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park <sj@xxxxxxxxxx>

Should we add Fixes: and Cc: stable@ too?  This function was introduced by
commit f04b0fedbe71 ("mm/damon/core: implement intervals auto-tuning") which
was merged into 6.15.


Thanks,
SJ

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