From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Michael Davidson <md@google.com>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>,
Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>,
Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>,
Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@chromium.org>,
x86@kernel.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org,
linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/7] md/raid10, LLVM: get rid of variable length array
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 13:08:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170317120837.pr74cv3xuj7qpoin@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170317001520.85223-7-md@google.com>
On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 05:15:19PM -0700, Michael Davidson wrote:
> Replace a variable length array in a struct by allocating
> the memory for the entire struct in a char array on the stack.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Davidson <md@google.com>
> ---
> drivers/md/raid10.c | 9 ++++-----
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/md/raid10.c b/drivers/md/raid10.c
> index 063c43d83b72..158ebdff782c 100644
> --- a/drivers/md/raid10.c
> +++ b/drivers/md/raid10.c
> @@ -4654,11 +4654,10 @@ static int handle_reshape_read_error(struct mddev *mddev,
> /* Use sync reads to get the blocks from somewhere else */
> int sectors = r10_bio->sectors;
> struct r10conf *conf = mddev->private;
> - struct {
> - struct r10bio r10_bio;
> - struct r10dev devs[conf->copies];
> - } on_stack;
> - struct r10bio *r10b = &on_stack.r10_bio;
> + char on_stack_r10_bio[sizeof(struct r10bio) +
> + conf->copies * sizeof(struct r10dev)]
> + __aligned(__alignof__(struct r10bio));
> + struct r10bio *r10b = (struct r10bio *)on_stack_r10_bio;
> int slot = 0;
> int idx = 0;
> struct bio_vec *bvec = r10_bio->master_bio->bi_io_vec;
That's disgusting. Why not fix LLVM to support this?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-03-17 12:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-17 0:15 [PATCH 0/7] LLVM: make x86_64 kernel build with clang Michael Davidson
2017-03-17 0:15 ` [PATCH 1/7] Makefile, LLVM: add -no-integrated-as to KBUILD_[AC]FLAGS Michael Davidson
2017-04-03 22:49 ` Matthias Kaehlcke
2017-04-21 7:49 ` Masahiro Yamada
2017-03-17 0:15 ` [PATCH 2/7] Makefile, x86, LLVM: disable unsupported optimization flags Michael Davidson
2017-03-17 21:32 ` H. Peter Anvin
2017-03-17 21:34 ` H. Peter Anvin
2017-04-05 18:08 ` Masahiro Yamada
2017-04-05 19:01 ` Matthias Kaehlcke
2017-04-05 19:11 ` Michael Davidson
2017-04-10 14:54 ` Masahiro Yamada
2017-03-17 0:15 ` [PATCH 3/7] x86, LLVM: suppress clang warnings about unaligned accesses Michael Davidson
2017-03-17 23:50 ` hpa
2017-04-03 23:01 ` Matthias Kaehlcke
2017-04-13 23:14 ` Matthias Kaehlcke
2017-04-13 23:55 ` H. Peter Anvin
2017-04-14 0:23 ` Matthias Kaehlcke
2017-04-14 5:30 ` hpa
2017-03-17 0:15 ` [PATCH 4/7] x86, boot, LLVM: #undef memcpy etc in string.c Michael Davidson
2017-06-22 22:31 ` Matthias Kaehlcke
2017-06-22 22:37 ` H. Peter Anvin
2017-06-30 18:32 ` Matthias Kaehlcke
2017-03-17 0:15 ` [PATCH 5/7] x86, boot, LLVM: Use regparm=0 for memcpy and memset Michael Davidson
2017-03-17 12:08 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-06-22 22:38 ` H. Peter Anvin
2017-03-17 0:15 ` [PATCH 6/7] md/raid10, LLVM: get rid of variable length array Michael Davidson
2017-03-17 12:08 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2017-03-17 12:31 ` Alexander Potapenko
2017-03-17 12:32 ` Alexander Potapenko
2017-03-17 18:03 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-03-17 18:47 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2017-03-17 18:57 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-03-17 19:05 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2017-03-17 19:26 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-03-17 19:29 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-03-24 13:50 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2017-03-24 14:10 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-03-24 14:22 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2017-03-18 0:41 ` Fengguang Wu
2017-03-17 12:44 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-03-17 18:52 ` Michael Davidson
2017-03-17 19:27 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-03-17 20:04 ` hpa
2017-03-24 13:47 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2017-03-24 14:09 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-03-17 0:15 ` [PATCH 7/7] crypto, x86, LLVM: aesni - fix token pasting Michael Davidson
2017-04-03 23:14 ` Matthias Kaehlcke
2017-03-17 8:17 ` [PATCH 0/7] LLVM: make x86_64 kernel build with clang Dmitry Vyukov
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