From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail137.messagelabs.com (mail137.messagelabs.com [216.82.249.19]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA6266B02A3 for ; Thu, 8 Jul 2010 16:58:11 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2010 13:58:05 -0700 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH] reduce stack usage of node_read_meminfo() Message-Id: <20100708135805.b4411965.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20100708181629.CD3C.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> References: <20100708181629.CD3C.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: KOSAKI Motohiro Cc: LKML , linux-mm List-ID: On Thu, 8 Jul 2010 18:20:14 +0900 (JST) KOSAKI Motohiro wrote: > > Now, cmpilation node_read_meminfo() output following warning. Because > it has very large sprintf() argument. > > drivers/base/node.c: In function 'node_read_meminfo': > drivers/base/node.c:139: warning: the frame size of 848 bytes is > larger than 512 bytes hm, I'm surprised it's that much. > --- a/drivers/base/node.c > +++ b/drivers/base/node.c > @@ -66,8 +66,7 @@ static ssize_t node_read_meminfo(struct sys_device * dev, > struct sysinfo i; > > si_meminfo_node(&i, nid); > - > - n = sprintf(buf, "\n" > + n = sprintf(buf, > "Node %d MemTotal: %8lu kB\n" > "Node %d MemFree: %8lu kB\n" > "Node %d MemUsed: %8lu kB\n" > @@ -78,13 +77,33 @@ static ssize_t node_read_meminfo(struct sys_device * dev, > "Node %d Active(file): %8lu kB\n" > "Node %d Inactive(file): %8lu kB\n" > "Node %d Unevictable: %8lu kB\n" > - "Node %d Mlocked: %8lu kB\n" > + "Node %d Mlocked: %8lu kB\n", > + nid, K(i.totalram), > + nid, K(i.freeram), > + nid, K(i.totalram - i.freeram), > + nid, K(node_page_state(nid, NR_ACTIVE_ANON) + > + node_page_state(nid, NR_ACTIVE_FILE)), Why the heck did we decide to print the same node-id 10000 times? > + n += sprintf(buf, You just got caught sending untested patches. --- a/drivers/base/node.c~drivers-base-nodec-reduce-stack-usage-of-node_read_meminfo-fix +++ a/drivers/base/node.c @@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ static ssize_t node_read_meminfo(struct nid, K(node_page_state(nid, NR_MLOCK))); #ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM - n += sprintf(buf, + n += sprintf(buf + n, "Node %d HighTotal: %8lu kB\n" "Node %d HighFree: %8lu kB\n" "Node %d LowTotal: %8lu kB\n" @@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ static ssize_t node_read_meminfo(struct nid, K(i.totalram - i.totalhigh), nid, K(i.freeram - i.freehigh)); #endif - n += sprintf(buf, + n += sprintf(buf + n, "Node %d Dirty: %8lu kB\n" "Node %d Writeback: %8lu kB\n" "Node %d FilePages: %8lu kB\n" _ Please, run the code and check that we didn't muck up the output. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org