From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2019 17:01:55 +0200 > The mlx4_dev_cap and mlx4_init_hca_param are really too large > to be put on the kernel stack, as shown by this clang warning: > > drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/main.c:3304:12: error: stack frame size of 1088 bytes in function 'mlx4_load_one' [-Werror,-Wframe-larger-than=] > > With gcc, the problem is the same, but it does not warn because > it does not inline this function, and therefore stays just below > the warning limit, while clang is just above it. > > Use kzalloc for dynamic allocation instead of putting them > on stack. This gets the combined stack frame down to 424 bytes. > > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> Applied.