Re: [PATCH] arm64: move smp_send_stop() cpu mask off stack

[Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>]

On Fri, Jun 20, 2025 at 01:10:41PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> 
> For really large values of CONFIG_NR_CPUS, a CPU mask value should
> not be put on the stack:
> 
> arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c:1188:1: error: the frame size of 8544 bytes is larger than 1536 bytes [-Werror=frame-larger-than=]
> 
> This could be achieved using alloc_cpumask_var(), which makes it
> depend on CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK, but as this function is already
> serialized and can only run on one CPU, making the variable 'static'
> is easier.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c
> index 15987100c0cf..5c605dc7f5be 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c
> @@ -1107,7 +1107,7 @@ static inline unsigned int num_other_online_cpus(void)
>  void smp_send_stop(void)
>  {
>  	static unsigned long stop_in_progress;
> -	cpumask_t mask;
> +	static cpumask_t mask;
>  	unsigned long timeout;

This would work, there's a stop_in_progress check and only one CPU would
modify the mask.

Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>