> -----Original Message----- > From: Intel-wired-lan [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Arnd Bergmann > Sent: Monday, July 15, 2019 5:35 AM > To: Kirsher, Jeffrey T <[email protected]>; David S. Miller > <[email protected]> > Cc: Catherine Sullivan <[email protected]>; Dziggel, Douglas A > <[email protected]>; Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>; > [email protected]; Patryk Małek <[email protected]>; linux- > [email protected]; Azarewicz, Piotr <[email protected]>; > Loktionov, Aleksandr <[email protected]>; clang-built- > [email protected]; [email protected]; Marczak, Piotr > <[email protected]> > Subject: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH] i40e: reduce stack usage in i40e_set_fc > > The functions i40e_aq_get_phy_abilities_resp() and i40e_set_fc() both have > giant structure on the stack, which makes each one use stack frames larger > than 500 bytes. > > As clang decides one function into the other, we get a warning for exceeding > the frame size limit on 32-bit architectures: > > drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_common.c:1654:23: error: stack frame > size of 1116 bytes in function 'i40e_set_fc' [-Werror,-Wframe-larger-than=] > > When building with gcc, the inlining does not happen, but i40e_set_fc() calls > i40e_aq_get_phy_abilities_resp() anyway, so they add up on the kernel > stack just as much. > > The parts that actually use large stacks don't overlap, so make sure each one > is a separate function, and mark them as noinline_for_stack to prevent the > compilers from combining them again. > > Fixes: 0a862b43acc6 ("i40e/i40evf: Add module_types and > update_link_info") > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]> > --- > drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_common.c | 91 +++++++++++-------- > 1 file changed, 51 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-)
Tested-by: Andrew Bowers <[email protected]>

