On 06/25/2013 02:50 PM, Martin Schwidefsky wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Jun 2013 09:54:41 +0800
> Chen Gang <gang.c...@asianux.com> wrote:
>
>> > Hello Maintainers:
>> >
>> > When allmodconfig for " IBM zSeries model z800 and z900"
>> >
>> > It will report the related warnings ("EXTRA_CFLAGS=-W"):
>> > mm/slub.c:1875:1: warning: ‘deactivate_slab’ uses dynamic stack
>> > allocation [enabled by default]
>> > mm/slub.c:1941:1: warning: ‘unfreeze_partials.isra.32’ uses dynamic
>> > stack allocation [enabled by default]
>> > mm/slub.c:2575:1: warning: ‘__slab_free’ uses dynamic stack allocation
>> > [enabled by default]
>> > mm/slub.c:1582:1: warning: ‘get_partial_node.isra.34’ uses dynamic stack
>> > allocation [enabled by default]
>> > mm/slub.c:2311:1: warning: ‘__slab_alloc.constprop.42’ uses dynamic
>> > stack allocation [enabled by default]
>> >
>> > Is it OK ?
> Yes, these warnings should be ok. They are enabled by
> CONFIG_WARN_DYNAMIC_STACK,
> the purpose is to find all functions with dynamic stack allocations. The check
> if the allocations are truly ok needs to be done manually as the compiler
> can not find out the maximum allocation size automatically.
Thank you very much for your details information.
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Chen Gang
Asianux Corporation
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