Re: [PATCH v2] cpufreq: powernv: fix stack bloat and NR_CPUS limitation

[Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>]

On 17-10-19, 21:55, John Hubbard wrote:
> The following build warning occurred on powerpc 64-bit builds:
> 
> drivers/cpufreq/powernv-cpufreq.c: In function 'init_chip_info':
> drivers/cpufreq/powernv-cpufreq.c:1070:1: warning: the frame size of 1040 bytes is larger than 1024 bytes [-Wframe-larger-than=]
> 
> This is due to putting 1024 bytes on the stack:
> 
>     unsigned int chip[256];
> 
> ...and while looking at this, it also has a bug: it fails with a stack
> overrun, if CONFIG_NR_CPUS > 256.
> 
> Fix both problems by dynamically allocating based on CONFIG_NR_CPUS.
> 
> Fixes: 053819e0bf840 ("cpufreq: powernv: Handle throttling due to Pmax capping at chip level")
> Cc: Shilpasri G Bhat <shilpa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Cc: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
> Cc: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
> Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
> ---
> 
> Changes since v1: includes Viresh's review commit fixes.
> 
>  drivers/cpufreq/powernv-cpufreq.c | 17 +++++++++++++----
>  1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>

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viresh