Re: [PATCH] Enable '-Werror' by default for all kernel builds

[Nathan Chancellor]

On 9/7/2021 10:48 AM, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On 9/7/21 10:10 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 7, 2021 at 2:11 AM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > x86_64-alpine.log:drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/../display/dc/calcs/dcn_calcs.c:452:13: 
> > > > error: stack frame size (1800) exceeds limit (1280) in function 
> > > > 'dcn_bw_calc_rq_dlg_ttu' [-Werror,-Wframe-larger-than]
> > > > x86_64-alpine.log:drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/../display/dc/dml/dcn21/display_rq_dlg_calc_21.c:1657:6: 
> > > > error: stack frame size (1336) exceeds limit (1280) in function 
> > > > 'dml21_rq_dlg_get_dlg_reg' [-Werror,-Wframe-larger-than]
> > > > x86_64-alpine.log:drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/../display/dc/dml/dcn30/display_rq_dlg_calc_30.c:1831:6: 
> > > > error: stack frame size (1352) exceeds limit (1280) in function 
> > > > 'dml30_rq_dlg_get_dlg_reg' [-Werror,-Wframe-larger-than]
> > > > x86_64-alpine.log:drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/../display/dc/dml/dcn31/display_rq_dlg_calc_31.c:1676:6: 
> > > > error: stack frame size (1336) exceeds limit (1280) in function 
> > > > 'dml31_rq_dlg_get_dlg_reg' [-Werror,-Wframe-larger-than]
> > > > x86_64-alpine.log:drivers/vhost/scsi.c:1831:12: error: stack frame 
> > > > size (1320) exceeds limit (1280) in function 'vhost_scsi_release' 
> > > > [-Werror,-Wframe-larger-than]
>
> FWIW, the above is because of
>
> static void vhost_scsi_flush(struct vhost_scsi *vs)
> {
>          struct vhost_scsi_inflight *old_inflight[VHOST_SCSI_MAX_VQ];
>
> where VHOST_SCSI_MAX_VQ=128. Presumably some versions of clang inline
> this function. gcc has the same problem here - its stack frame size is
> also > 1024 for vhost_scsi_flush().

Good to know. When investigating these, I intend to compare against GCC 
to see what the difference is to know if it is a problem with the code 
or a compiler issue.

Cheers,
Nathan