Hi Dan,

Thanks. Agreed.

For v2 I’ll keep this patch minimal: only switch from write_reg() varargs
to fbtft_write_buf_dc() and reduce the stack usage, without other changes.

Any follow-up cleanups (if needed) will be sent as a separate patch.

Thanks,
Sun Jian

On Mon, Jan 5, 2026 at 10:39 PM Dan Carpenter <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Jan 04, 2026 at 07:06:36PM +0800, Sun Jian wrote:
> > Clang reports a large stack frame in set_gamma() (-Wframe-larger-than=1024)
> > due to the large write_reg() call emitting 63 gamma bytes via varargs.
> >
> > Send the command byte (0xB8) and the gamma payload using
> > fbtft_write_buf_dc() to avoid the varargs/NUMARGS stack blow-up.
> >
> > No functional change intended.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Sun Jian <[email protected]>
> > ---
> >  drivers/staging/fbtft/fb_ssd1351.c | 35 +++++++++++++-----------------
> >  1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/staging/fbtft/fb_ssd1351.c 
> > b/drivers/staging/fbtft/fb_ssd1351.c
> > index 6736b09b2f45..b4ab2c81e528 100644
> > --- a/drivers/staging/fbtft/fb_ssd1351.c
> > +++ b/drivers/staging/fbtft/fb_ssd1351.c
> > @@ -119,43 +119,38 @@ static int set_var(struct fbtft_par *par)
> >   */
> >  static int set_gamma(struct fbtft_par *par, u32 *curves)
> >  {
> > -     unsigned long tmp[GAMMA_NUM * GAMMA_LEN];
> > +     u8 data[GAMMA_LEN];
>
> Ugh...  GAMMA_NUM is 1 so this is an annoying calculation.  So what
> this does is it changes the type from unsigned long to u8 and renames
> the variable.  I am fine with renaming the variable it's unrelated and
> makes the review harder.
>
> > +     u8 cmd = 0xB8;
> >       int i, acc = 0;
> > +     int ret;
> >
> > -     for (i = 0; i < 63; i++) {
> > +     for (i = 0; i < GAMMA_LEN; i++) {
>
> GAMMA_LEN is 63.  So this looks like a change, but it's an unrelated
> cleanup.
>
> >               if (i > 0 && curves[i] < 2) {
> >                       dev_err(par->info->device,
> >                               "Illegal value in Grayscale Lookup Table at 
> > index %d : %d. Must be greater than 1\n",
> >                               i, curves[i]);
> >                       return -EINVAL;
> >               }
> > +
>
> This is an unrelated white space change.
>
> >               acc += curves[i];
> > -             tmp[i] = acc;
> > +
> >               if (acc > 180) {
> >                       dev_err(par->info->device,
> >                               "Illegal value(s) in Grayscale Lookup Table. 
> > At index=%d : %d, the accumulated value has exceeded 180\n",
> >                               i, acc);
> >                       return -EINVAL;
> >               }
> > +
> > +             data[i] = acc;
>
> Here we move the acc assignment after the sanity check, but it's just
> an unrelated cleanup.
>
> >       }
> >
> > -     write_reg(par, 0xB8,
> > -               tmp[0],  tmp[1],  tmp[2],  tmp[3],
> > -               tmp[4],  tmp[5],  tmp[6],  tmp[7],
> > -               tmp[8],  tmp[9],  tmp[10], tmp[11],
> > -               tmp[12], tmp[13], tmp[14], tmp[15],
> > -               tmp[16], tmp[17], tmp[18], tmp[19],
> > -               tmp[20], tmp[21], tmp[22], tmp[23],
> > -               tmp[24], tmp[25], tmp[26], tmp[27],
> > -               tmp[28], tmp[29], tmp[30], tmp[31],
> > -               tmp[32], tmp[33], tmp[34], tmp[35],
> > -               tmp[36], tmp[37], tmp[38], tmp[39],
> > -               tmp[40], tmp[41], tmp[42], tmp[43],
> > -               tmp[44], tmp[45], tmp[46], tmp[47],
> > -               tmp[48], tmp[49], tmp[50], tmp[51],
> > -               tmp[52], tmp[53], tmp[54], tmp[55],
> > -               tmp[56], tmp[57], tmp[58], tmp[59],
> > -               tmp[60], tmp[61], tmp[62]);
> > +     ret = fbtft_write_buf_dc(par, &cmd, 1, 0);
> > +     if (ret < 0)
> > +             return ret;
> > +
> > +     ret = fbtft_write_buf_dc(par, data, sizeof(data), 1);
> > +     if (ret < 0)
> > +             return ret;
>
> These are good changes.  Just change the type from unsigned long to u8
> and use fbtft_write_buf_dc() instead of write_reg().  Then do the other
> changes in a separate patch.
>
> Same for the other patches.
>
> regards,
> dan carpenter
>
> >
> >       return 0;
> >  }
> > --
> > 2.43.0
> >

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