On 15 August 2002 19:48, Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Currently, sanitize_e820_map uses 0x738 bytes of stack. The patch below
> moves the arrays into __initdata, reducing stack usage to 0x34 bytes.
Is that a real problem? sanitize_e820_map will be called just once at init
time...
> +struct change_member change_point_list[2*E820MAX] __initdata;
> +struct change_member *change_point[2*E820MAX] __initdata;
> +struct e820entry *overlap_list[E820MAX] __initdata;
> +struct e820entry new_bios[E820MAX] __initdata;
Does this enlarge on-disk kernel image?
Shouldn't they be static?
> static int __init sanitize_e820_map(struct e820entry * biosmap, char *
> pnr_map) {
> - struct change_member {
> - struct e820entry *pbios; /* pointer to original bios entry */
> - unsigned long long addr; /* address for this change point */
> - };
> - struct change_member change_point_list[2*E820MAX];
> - struct change_member *change_point[2*E820MAX];
> - struct e820entry *overlap_list[E820MAX];
> - struct e820entry new_bios[E820MAX];
> struct change_member *change_tmp;
> unsigned long current_type, last_type;
> unsigned long long last_addr;
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