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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>,
	Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>,
	Mathias Kresin <dev@kresin.me>,
	linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
	Networking <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rt2500usb: don't mark register accesses as inline
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2017 08:48:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAK8P3a2HfVqS76QHC4Z93r-L=Vvh-g+JsjE9kqut4VOUQVJLew@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8760kcovf1.fsf@kamboji.qca.qualcomm.com>

On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 6:49 AM, Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org> wrote:
> Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> writes:
>
>> When CONFIG_KASAN is set, we get a rather large stack here:
>>
>> drivers/net/wireless/ralink/rt2x00/rt2500usb.c: In function 'rt2500usb_set_device_state':
>> drivers/net/wireless/ralink/rt2x00/rt2500usb.c:1074:1: error: the frame size of 3032 bytes is larger than 100 bytes [-Werror=frame-larger-than=]
>>
>> If we don't force those functions to be inline, the compiler can figure this
>> out better itself and not inline the functions when doing so would be harmful,
>> reducing the stack size to a merge 256 bytes.
>>
>> Note that there is another problem that manifests in this driver, as a result
>> of the typecheck() macro causing even larger stack frames.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
>
> [...]
>
>> -static inline void rt2500usb_register_multiread(struct rt2x00_dev *rt2x00dev,
>> -                                             const unsigned int offset,
>> -                                             void *value, const u16 length)
>> -{
>> -     rt2x00usb_vendor_request_buff(rt2x00dev, USB_MULTI_READ,
>> -                                   USB_VENDOR_REQUEST_IN, offset,
>> -                                   value, length);
>> -}
>> -
>
> I guess you removed this because it was not actually used anywhere? Just
> checking.

Correct, if I just remove the 'inline' annotation, we get a warning about an
unused function here. Sorry for not mentioning that in the changelog.

    Arnd

  reply	other threads:[~2017-02-15  7:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-02-14 21:28 [PATCH] rt2500usb: don't mark register accesses as inline Arnd Bergmann
2017-02-15  5:49 ` Kalle Valo
2017-02-15  7:48   ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2017-02-15  9:16 ` Kalle Valo

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