Having pt_regs on-stack is unfortunate, it's 168 bytes. Since it isn't actually used, make it a static variable. This both gets if off the stack and ensures it gets 0 initialized, just in case someone does look at it.
Reported-by: Steven Rostedt <rost...@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <pet...@infradead.org> --- arch/x86/events/intel/ds.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/arch/x86/events/intel/ds.c +++ b/arch/x86/events/intel/ds.c @@ -1735,7 +1735,7 @@ static void __intel_pmu_pebs_event(struc struct x86_perf_regs perf_regs; struct pt_regs *regs = &perf_regs.regs; void *at = get_next_pebs_record_by_bit(base, top, bit); - struct pt_regs dummy_iregs; + static struct pt_regs dummy_iregs; if (hwc->flags & PERF_X86_EVENT_AUTO_RELOAD) { /*