From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
To: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>,
Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>,
Neeraj Upadhyay <neeraj.upadhyay@kernel.org>,
Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>,
Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>,
Boqun Feng <boqun@kernel.org>,
Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>,
Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>,
Zqiang <qiang.zhang@linux.dev>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
Tze-nan Wu <Tze-nan.Wu@mediatek.com>,
rcu@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] rcu/nocb: reduce stack usage in nocb_gp_wait()
Date: Tue, 19 May 2026 21:01:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260519190447.1716375-1-arnd@kernel.org> (raw)
From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
When CONFIG_UBSAN_ALIGNMENT is enabled, the stack usage of nocb_gp_wait()
grows above typical warning limits:
In file included from kernel/rcu/tree.c:4930:
kernel/rcu/tree_nocb.h: In function 'rcu_nocb_gp_kthread':
kernel/rcu/tree_nocb.h:866:1: error: the frame size of 1968 bytes is larger than 1280 bytes [-Werror=frame-larger-than=]
Apparently, the problem is passing rcu_data from a 'void *' pointer,
which gcc assumes may be misaligned. When the function is not inlined
into rcu_nocb_gp_kthread(), that is no longer visible to gcc.
Add a 'noinline_for_stack' annotation that leads to skipping a lot of
the alignment sanitizer checks and keeps the stack usage 60% lower here.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
---
kernel/rcu/tree_nocb.h | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree_nocb.h b/kernel/rcu/tree_nocb.h
index 1047b30cd46b..373b877cf171 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/tree_nocb.h
+++ b/kernel/rcu/tree_nocb.h
@@ -655,7 +655,7 @@ static void nocb_gp_sleep(struct rcu_data *my_rdp, int cpu)
* No-CBs GP kthreads come here to wait for additional callbacks to show up
* or for grace periods to end.
*/
-static void nocb_gp_wait(struct rcu_data *my_rdp)
+static noinline_for_stack void nocb_gp_wait(struct rcu_data *my_rdp)
{
bool bypass = false;
int __maybe_unused cpu = my_rdp->cpu;
--
2.39.5
next reply other threads:[~2026-05-19 19:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-05-19 19:01 Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2026-05-19 21:52 ` [PATCH] rcu/nocb: reduce stack usage in nocb_gp_wait() Paul E. McKenney
2026-05-20 12:04 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2026-05-20 14:02 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2026-05-27 12:07 ` Kunwu Chan
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