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On 05.05.20 17:01, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 4:34 PM Jürgen Groß <jgross@suse.com> wrote:
>> On 05.05.20 16:15, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>>> The __xenbus_map_ring() function has two large arrays, 'map' and
>>> 'unmap' on its stack. When clang decides to inline it into its caller,
>>> xenbus_map_ring_valloc_hvm(), the total stack usage exceeds the warning
>>> limit for stack size on 32-bit architectures.
>>>
>>> drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_client.c:592:12: error: stack frame size of 1104 bytes in function 'xenbus_map_ring_valloc_hvm' [-Werror,-Wframe-larger-than=]
>>>
>>> As far as I can tell, other compilers don't inline it here, so we get
>>> no warning, but the stack usage is actually the same. It is possible
>>> for both arrays to use the same location on the stack, but the compiler
>>> cannot prove that this is safe because they get passed to external
>>> functions that may end up using them until they go out of scope.
>>>
>>> Move the two arrays into separate basic blocks to limit the scope
>>> and force them to occupy less stack in total, regardless of the
>>> inlining decision.
>>
>> Why don't you put both arrays into a union?
> 
> I considered that as well, and don't really mind either way. I think it does
> get a bit ugly whatever we do. If you prefer the union, I can respin the
> patch that way.

Hmm, thinking more about it I think the real clean solution would be to
extend struct map_ring_valloc_hvm to cover the pv case, too, to add the
map and unmap arrays (possibly as a union) to it and to allocate it
dynamically instead of having it on the stack.

Would you be fine doing this?


Juergen