Re: [PATCH] mtd: lpddr: fix excessive stack usage with clang

[Miquel Raynal]

On Tue, 2020-05-05 at 14:01:16 UTC, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> Building lpddr2_nvm with clang can result in a giant stack usage
> in one function:
> 
> drivers/mtd/lpddr/lpddr2_nvm.c:399:12: error: stack frame size of 1144 bytes in function 'lpddr2_nvm_probe' [-Werror,-Wframe-larger-than=]
> 
> The problem is that clang decides to build a copy of the mtd_info
> structure on the stack and then do a memcpy() into the actual version. It
> shouldn't really do it that way, but it's not strictly a bug either.
> 
> As a workaround, use a static const version of the structure to assign
> most of the members upfront and then only set the few members that
> require runtime knowledge at probe time.
> 
> Fixes: 96ba9dd65788 ("mtd: lpddr: add driver for LPDDR2-NVM PCM memories")
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Applied to https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mtd/linux.git mtd/next, thanks.

Miquel