On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 06:58:04AM +0100, Stefan Wahren wrote: > Hi Tobin, > > > "Tobin C. Harding" <me@xxxxxxxx> hat am 12. März 2018 um 06:46 geschrieben: > > > > > > On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 12:37:53PM +1100, Tobin C. Harding wrote: > > > The kernel would like to have all stack VLA usage removed[1]. The array > > > here is fixed (declared with a const variable) but it appears like a VLA > > > to the compiler. Also, currently we are putting 768 bytes on the > > > stack. This function is only called on the error path so performance is > > > not critical, let's just allocate the memory instead of using the > > > stack. This saves stack space and removes the VLA build warning. > > > > > > kmalloc a buffer for dumping state instead of using the stack. > > > > > > [1]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/7/621 > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Tobin C. Harding <me@xxxxxxxx> > > > --- > > > > Drop this please, leaks memory. > > except from the leak, did you test this patch on a RPi? No I didn't, but I can have a go at it. Will try before doing v3. thanks, Tobin. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
