struct cpufreq_policy is quite big and it is not a good idea to allocate one on the stack. Just use cpufreq_cpu_get and cpufreq_cpu_put which is even simpler. Reported-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 10 +++++----- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c index 359fcd395132..bcb6b676608b 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c @@ -7190,15 +7190,15 @@ static void kvm_timer_init(void) if (!boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_CONSTANT_TSC)) { #ifdef CONFIG_CPU_FREQ - struct cpufreq_policy policy; + struct cpufreq_policy *policy; int cpu; - memset(&policy, 0, sizeof(policy)); cpu = get_cpu(); - cpufreq_get_policy(&policy, cpu); - if (policy.cpuinfo.max_freq) - max_tsc_khz = policy.cpuinfo.max_freq; + policy = cpufreq_cpu_get(cpu); + if (policy && policy->cpuinfo.max_freq) + max_tsc_khz = policy->cpuinfo.max_freq; put_cpu(); + cpufreq_cpu_put(policy); #endif cpufreq_register_notifier(&kvmclock_cpufreq_notifier_block, CPUFREQ_TRANSITION_NOTIFIER); -- 1.8.3.1