Re: [PATCH] net/mlx5: reduce stack usage in qp_read_field

[Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>]

On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 7:22 AM Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 11:23:47PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > Moving the mlx5_ifc_query_qp_out_bits structure on the stack was a bit
> > excessive and now causes the compiler to complain on 32-bit architectures:
> >
> > drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/debugfs.c: In function 'qp_read_field':
> > drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/debugfs.c:274:1: error: the frame size of 1104 bytes is larger than 1024 bytes [-Werror=frame-larger-than=]
> >
> > Revert the previous patch partially to use dynamically allocation as
> > the code did before. Unfortunately there is no good error handling
> > in case the allocation fails.
> >
> > Fixes: 57a6c5e992f5 ("net/mlx5: Replace hand written QP context struct with automatic getters")
> > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> > ---
> >  drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/debugfs.c | 12 +++++++++---
> >  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> Thanks Arnd, I'll pick it to mlx5-next.
>
> I was under impression that the frame size was increased a long
> time ago. Is this 1K limit still effective for all archs?
> Or is it is 32-bit leftover?

I got the output on a 32-bit build, but that doesn't make the code
right on 64-bit.

While warning limit is generally 1024 bytes for 32-bit architectures,
and 2048 bytes fro 64-bit architectures,  we should probably
reduce the latter to something like 1280 bytes and fix up the
warnings that introduces.

Generally speaking, I'd say a function using more than a few hundred
bytes tends to be a bad idea, but we can't warn about those without
also warning about the handful of cases that do it for a good reason
and using close to 1024 bytes on 32 bit systems or a little more on
64-bit systems, in places that are known not to have deep call chains.

       Arnd