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From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Phillip Susi <psusi@cfl.rr.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
Subject: pktcdvd stack usage regression
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 03:09:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060209020932.GY3524@stusta.de> (raw)

Hi Phillip,

your recent patch "pktcdvd: Allow larger packets" changed 
PACKET_MAX_SIZE in the pktcdvd driver from 32 to 128.

Unfortunately, drivers/block/pktcdvd.c contains the following:

<--  snip  -->

...
static void pkt_start_write(struct pktcdvd_device *pd, struct 
packet_data *pkt)
{
        struct bio *bio;
        struct page *pages[PACKET_MAX_SIZE];
        int offsets[PACKET_MAX_SIZE];
...

<--  snip  -->

With PACKET_MAX_SIZE=128, this allocates more than 1 kB on the stack 
which is not acceptable considering that we might have only 4 kB stack 
altogether.

Please either fix this before 2.6.16 or ask Linus to revert commit 
5c55ac9bbca22ee134408f83de5f2bda3b1b2a53.

TIA
Adrian

-- 

       "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out
        of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.
       "Only a promise," Lao Er said.
                                       Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed


             reply	other threads:[~2006-02-09  2:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-09  2:09 Adrian Bunk [this message]
2006-02-09  6:01 ` pktcdvd stack usage regression Peter Osterlund
2006-02-10 14:39   ` Adrian Bunk
2006-02-10 20:56     ` Peter Osterlund

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