Re: [PATCH] rt2500usb: don't mark register accesses as inline

[Kalle Valo]

Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> writes:

> When CONFIG_KASAN is set, we get a rather large stack here:
>
> drivers/net/wireless/ralink/rt2x00/rt2500usb.c: In function 'rt2500usb_set_device_state':
> drivers/net/wireless/ralink/rt2x00/rt2500usb.c:1074:1: error: the frame size of 3032 bytes is larger than 100 bytes [-Werror=frame-larger-than=]
>
> If we don't force those functions to be inline, the compiler can figure this
> out better itself and not inline the functions when doing so would be harmful,
> reducing the stack size to a merge 256 bytes.
>
> Note that there is another problem that manifests in this driver, as a result
> of the typecheck() macro causing even larger stack frames.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>

[...]

> -static inline void rt2500usb_register_multiread(struct rt2x00_dev *rt2x00dev,
> -						const unsigned int offset,
> -						void *value, const u16 length)
> -{
> -	rt2x00usb_vendor_request_buff(rt2x00dev, USB_MULTI_READ,
> -				      USB_VENDOR_REQUEST_IN, offset,
> -				      value, length);
> -}
> -

I guess you removed this because it was not actually used anywhere? Just
checking.

-- 
Kalle Valo