Re: [PATCH] mm/page_alloc: remove the static for local variable node_order

From: Muchun Song
Date: Wed Dec 30 2020 - 08:42:49 EST


On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 8:45 PM Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 07:40:14PM +0800, Hui Su wrote:
> > local variable node_order do not need the static here.
>
> It bloody well does. It can be up to 2^10 entries on x86 (and larger
> on others) That's 4kB which you've now moved onto the stack.

This is not the first time I have seen similar changes. So what
do you think about adding a comment here to avoid another one
do this in the feature?

>
> Please, learn more about what you're doing. I suggest sending patches
> to drivers/staging; that will help you learn how to submit patches to
> linux.