[PATCH] [v2] ethtool: reduce stack usage with clang

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Thu Mar 07 2019 - 11:00:43 EST


clang inlines the dev_ethtool() more aggressively than gcc does, leading
to a larger amount of used stack space:

net/core/ethtool.c:2536:24: error: stack frame size of 1216 bytes in function 'dev_ethtool' [-Werror,-Wframe-larger-than=]

Marking the sub-functions that require the most stack space as
noinline_for_stack gives us reasonable behavior on all compilers.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
---
v2: don't annotate dev_ethtool itself, as pointed out by Michal Kubecek
---
net/core/ethtool.c | 16 +++++++++-------
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/core/ethtool.c b/net/core/ethtool.c
index d4918ffddda8..b1eb32419732 100644
--- a/net/core/ethtool.c
+++ b/net/core/ethtool.c
@@ -2319,9 +2319,10 @@ static int ethtool_set_tunable(struct net_device *dev, void __user *useraddr)
return ret;
}

-static int ethtool_get_per_queue_coalesce(struct net_device *dev,
- void __user *useraddr,
- struct ethtool_per_queue_op *per_queue_opt)
+static noinline_for_stack int
+ethtool_get_per_queue_coalesce(struct net_device *dev,
+ void __user *useraddr,
+ struct ethtool_per_queue_op *per_queue_opt)
{
u32 bit;
int ret;
@@ -2349,9 +2350,10 @@ static int ethtool_get_per_queue_coalesce(struct net_device *dev,
return 0;
}

-static int ethtool_set_per_queue_coalesce(struct net_device *dev,
- void __user *useraddr,
- struct ethtool_per_queue_op *per_queue_opt)
+static noinline_for_stack int
+ethtool_set_per_queue_coalesce(struct net_device *dev,
+ void __user *useraddr,
+ struct ethtool_per_queue_op *per_queue_opt)
{
u32 bit;
int i, ret = 0;
@@ -2405,7 +2407,7 @@ static int ethtool_set_per_queue_coalesce(struct net_device *dev,
return ret;
}

-static int ethtool_set_per_queue(struct net_device *dev,
+static int noinline_for_stack ethtool_set_per_queue(struct net_device *dev,
void __user *useraddr, u32 sub_cmd)
{
struct ethtool_per_queue_op per_queue_opt;
--
2.20.0