Re: [PATCH -v2] x86: allocate cpumask during check irq vectors

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Sat Jan 25 2014 - 03:03:11 EST



* Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Fix warning:
> arch/x86/kernel/irq.c: In function check_irq_vectors_for_cpu_disable:
> arch/x86/kernel/irq.c:337:1: warning: the frame size of 2052 bytes is larger than 2048 bytes
>
> when NR_CPUS=8192
>
> We should use zalloc_cpumask_var() instead.
>
> -v2: update to GFP_ATOMIC instead and free the allocated cpumask at last.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> ---
> arch/x86/kernel/irq.c | 24 +++++++++++++++++-------
> 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
> Index: linux-2.6/arch/x86/kernel/irq.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.orig/arch/x86/kernel/irq.c
> +++ linux-2.6/arch/x86/kernel/irq.c
> @@ -277,11 +277,18 @@ int check_irq_vectors_for_cpu_disable(vo
> unsigned int this_cpu, vector, this_count, count;
> struct irq_desc *desc;
> struct irq_data *data;
> - struct cpumask affinity_new, online_new;
> + cpumask_var_t affinity_new, online_new;
> +
> + if (!alloc_cpumask_var(&affinity_new, GFP_ATOMIC))
> + return -ENOMEM;
> + if (!alloc_cpumask_var(&online_new, GFP_ATOMIC)) {
> + free_cpumask_var(affinity_new);
> + return -ENOMEM;
> + }

Atomic allocations can fail easily if the system is under duress.

Thanks,

Ingo
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/