Re: [PATCH] omapfb: reduce stack usage

[Joe Perches]

On Fri, 2019-10-18 at 23:30 +0100, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 07:27:28PM +0200, Ladislav Michl wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 05:30:04PM +0100, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> > > The build of xtensa allmodconfig is giving a warning of:
> > > In function 'dsi_dump_dsidev_irqs':
> > > warning: the frame size of 1120 bytes is larger than 1024 bytes
> > > 
> > > Allocate the memory for 'struct dsi_irq_stats' dynamically instead
> > > of assigning it in stack.
> > 
> > So now function can fail silently, executes longer, code is sligthly
> > bigger... And all that to silent warning about exceeding frame size.
> > Is it really worth "fixing"?

Depends if it could fail in practice due to a stack overrun.

> The only point of failure is if kmalloc() fails and if kmalloc() fails then
> there will be error prints in dmesg to tell the user that there is no
> memory left in the system. About the size bigger, it seems
> the drivers/video/fbdev/omap2/omapfb/dss/dsi.o file is smaller with the
> patch.
> This is without the patch:
> -rw-r--r-- 1 sudip sudip 316856 Oct 18 22:27 drivers/video/fbdev/omap2/omapfb/dss/dsi.o
> And this is with the patch:
> -rw-r--r-- 1 sudip sudip 316436 Oct 18 20:09 drivers/video/fbdev/omap2/omapfb/dss/dsi.o
> 
> And also, objdump shows me that <dsi_dump_dsidev_irqs> was taking up 0xD7D
> bytes, and now with the patch it is taking up 0xBED bytes, thats a saving
> of 400 bytes. If it has 400 bytes of less code to execute will it not be
> faster now?

You should try compiling without all the debugging symbols (defconfig)

> But, I may be totally wrong in my thinking, and in that case, please feel
> free to reject the patch.

Without your patch:

$ objdump -x drivers/video/fbdev/omap2/omapfb/dss/dsi.o | grep dsi_dump_dsidev_irqs
00000d20 l     F .text	0000061c dsi_dump_dsidev_irqs

With your patch:

$ objdump -x drivers/video/fbdev/omap2/omapfb/dss/dsi.o | grep dsi_dump_dsidev_irqs
00000d20 l     F .text	00000638 dsi_dump_dsidev_irqs