Am 2014-05-06 15:33, schrieb Dan Carpenter: > On Tue, May 06, 2014 at 02:41:37PM +0200, Martin Kepplinger wrote: >> fix following warning by dynamically allocating memory: >> dgnc_tty.c:583:1: warning: the frame size of 1060 bytes is larger than 1024 >> bytes [-Wframe-larger-than=] >> >> Signed-off-by: Martin Kepplinger <mart...@posteo.de> >> --- >> This is more of a question. Is this a desired solution to fixing such a >> frame size warning? > > This warning is because the kernel uses an 8k stack so you add up all > the stack memory used by each function from the syscall to here. If > it adds up to more than 8k then it's a bug. The 1k limit per function > is just a hack to spot where people are maybe being reckless.
nice. thanks. > > There are no kfree()s and this function is called with a spin_lock held > so this patch introduces a couple bugs. I know, it should have been just a question (probably to kernelnewbies' list). Sorry for the noise. > > There may be a better way to allocate this. Like maybe at probe() and > then use spinlocks to serialize access to the buffer. But sometimes > that's a very bad idea. > > It's better if you know the driver a bit and can test things. > > regards, > dan carpenter > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > _______________________________________________ devel mailing list de...@linuxdriverproject.org http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
