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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, pi3orama@163.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf core: Get rid of 'uses dynamic stack allocation' warning
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2016 09:00:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160122080004.GN6357@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1453445521-230804-1-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com>

On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 06:52:01AM +0000, Wang Nan wrote:
> On s390 with CONFIG_WARN_DYNAMIC_STACK set, 'uses dynamic stack
> allocation' warning is issued when defining 'struct perf_sample_data'
> local variable.
> 
> This patch suppress this warning by allocating extra 255 bytes and
> compute aligned pointer manually.

I've seen the warning and always wondered wtf it was about. This
Changelog doesn't actually explain what the problem is, so I cannot
judge the solution.

That said, 255 extra bytes does sound excessive just to avoid a warn.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-01-22  8:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-22  6:52 [PATCH] perf core: Get rid of 'uses dynamic stack allocation' warning Wang Nan
2016-01-22  7:06 ` kbuild test robot
2016-01-22  8:00 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2016-01-22  8:06   ` Wangnan (F)

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