Re: [PATCH 08/26] brcmsmac: make some local variables 'static const' to reduce stack size

From	Arend Van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH 08/26] brcmsmac: make some local variables 'static const' to reduce stack size
Date	2017-03-07 11:10 +0100
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On 7-3-2017 10:44, Kalle Valo wrote:
> Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> writes:
> 
>> On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 5:19 PM, Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org> wrote:
>>> Arend Van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> On 2-3-2017 17:38, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>>>>> With KASAN and a couple of other patches applied, this driver is one
>>>>> of the few remaining ones that actually use more than 2048 bytes of
>>>>> kernel stack:
>>>>>
>>>>> broadcom/brcm80211/brcmsmac/phy/phy_n.c: In function
>>>>> 'wlc_phy_workarounds_nphy_gainctrl':
>>>>> broadcom/brcm80211/brcmsmac/phy/phy_n.c:16065:1: warning: the
>>>>> frame size of 3264 bytes is larger than 2048 bytes
>>>>> [-Wframe-larger-than=]
>>>>> broadcom/brcm80211/brcmsmac/phy/phy_n.c: In function 'wlc_phy_workarounds_nphy':
>>>>> broadcom/brcm80211/brcmsmac/phy/phy_n.c:17138:1: warning: the
>>>>> frame size of 2864 bytes is larger than 2048 bytes
>>>>> [-Wframe-larger-than=]
>>>>>
>>>>> Here, I'm reducing the stack size by marking as many local variables as
>>>>> 'static const' as I can without changing the actual code.
>>>>
>>>> Acked-by: Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>
>>>
>>> Arnd, via which tree are you planning to submit these? I'm not sure
>>> what I should do with the wireless drivers patches from this series.
>>
>> I'm not quite sure myself yet. I'd probably want the first few patches that
>> do most of the work get merged through Andrew's linux-mm tree once
>> we have come to agreement on them. The driver specific patches like
>> the brcmsmac ones depend on the introduction of noinline_for_kasan
>> or noinline_if_stackbloat and could either go in along with the first
>> set, or as a follow-up through the normal maintainer trees.
> 
> Either way is fine for me. Just mark clearly if you want the wireless
> drivers patches to go through via my tree, otherwise I'll ignore them.

That (dreaded) phy code does not get a lot of changes so I think it does
not matter which tree is will go through in terms of risk for conflicts.
So going through linux-mm is fine for me as well.

Regards,
Arend

Thread

[PATCH 00/26] bring back stack frame warning with KASAN Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2017-03-02 18:20 +0100
  [PATCH 07/26] brcmsmac: reduce stack size with KASAN Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2017-03-02 18:20 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 07/26] brcmsmac: reduce stack size with KASAN Arend Van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com> - 2017-03-06 10:50 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 07/26] brcmsmac: reduce stack size with KASAN Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2017-03-06 12:00 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 07/26] brcmsmac: reduce stack size with KASAN Arend Van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com> - 2017-03-06 12:20 +0100
          Re: [PATCH 07/26] brcmsmac: reduce stack size with KASAN Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2017-03-06 12:20 +0100
            Re: [PATCH 07/26] brcmsmac: reduce stack size with KASAN Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2017-03-06 12:40 +0100
  [PATCH 15/26] [media] tuners: i2c: reduce stack usage for tuner_i2c_xfer_* Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2017-03-02 18:20 +0100
  [PATCH 11/26] rtlwifi: reduce stack usage for KASAN Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2017-03-02 18:20 +0100
  [PATCH 04/26] tty: kbd: reduce stack size with KASAN Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2017-03-02 18:20 +0100
  [PATCH 12/26] wl3501_cs: reduce stack size for KASAN Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2017-03-02 18:20 +0100
  [PATCH 09/26] brcmsmac: split up wlc_phy_workarounds_nphy Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2017-03-02 18:20 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 09/26] brcmsmac: split up wlc_phy_workarounds_nphy Arend Van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com> - 2017-03-06 10:40 +0100
  [PATCH 01/26] compiler: introduce noinline_for_kasan annotation Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2017-03-02 18:20 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 01/26] compiler: introduce noinline_for_kasan annotation Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> - 2017-03-03 15:00 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 01/26] compiler: introduce noinline_for_kasan annotation Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> - 2017-03-03 15:40 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 01/26] compiler: introduce noinline_for_kasan annotation Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2017-03-03 16:10 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 01/26] compiler: introduce noinline_for_kasan annotation Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2017-03-03 15:40 +0100
    RE: [PATCH 01/26] compiler: introduce noinline_for_kasan annotation David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM> - 2017-03-03 18:10 +0100
  [PATCH 05/26] netlink: mark nla_put_{u8,u16,u32} noinline_for_kasan Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2017-03-02 18:20 +0100
  [PATCH 08/26] brcmsmac: make some local variables 'static const' to reduce stack size Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2017-03-02 18:20 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 08/26] brcmsmac: make some local variables 'static const'  to reduce stack size Arend Van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com> - 2017-03-06 10:40 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 08/26] brcmsmac: make some local variables 'static const' to reduce stack size Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org> - 2017-03-06 17:40 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 08/26] brcmsmac: make some local variables 'static const'  to reduce stack size Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2017-03-06 22:40 +0100
          Re: [PATCH 08/26] brcmsmac: make some local variables 'static const' to reduce stack size Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org> - 2017-03-07 10:50 +0100
            Re: [PATCH 08/26] brcmsmac: make some local variables 'static const'  to reduce stack size Arend Van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com> - 2017-03-07 11:10 +0100
  [PATCH 22/26] drm/i915/gvt: don't overflow the kernel stack with KASAN Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2017-03-02 18:40 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 24/26] ocfs2: reduce stack size with KASAN Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2017-03-02 19:00 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 24/26] ocfs2: reduce stack size with KASAN Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2017-03-02 23:50 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 24/26] ocfs2: reduce stack size with KASAN Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2017-03-03 00:10 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 24/26] ocfs2: reduce stack size with KASAN Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2017-03-03 01:00 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 24/26] ocfs2: reduce stack size with KASAN Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2017-03-03 00:00 +0100
  [PATCH 24/26] ocfs2: reduce stack size with KASAN Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2017-03-02 20:10 +0100
  [PATCH 23/26] mtd: cfi: reduce stack size with KASAN Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2017-03-02 20:20 +0100
  [PATCH 18/26] [media] i2c: cx25840: avoid stack overflow with KASAN Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2017-03-02 23:30 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 00/26] bring back stack frame warning with KASAN Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> - 2017-03-03 13:30 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 00/26] bring back stack frame warning with KASAN Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2017-03-03 14:00 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 10/26] brcmsmac: reindent split functions Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org> - 2017-03-06 17:50 +0100

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