Re: [PATCH] ethtool: reduce stack usage with clang

[Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@suse.cz>]

On Thu, Mar 07, 2019 at 10:33:35AM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> clang inlines the dev_ethtool() more aggressively than gcc does, leading
> to a larger amount of used stack space:
> 
> net/core/ethtool.c:2536:24: error: stack frame size of 1216 bytes in function 'dev_ethtool' [-Werror,-Wframe-larger-than=]
> 
> Marking the sub-functions that require the most stack space as
> noinline_for_stack gives us reasonable behavior on all compilers.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> ---
>  net/core/ethtool.c | 18 ++++++++++--------
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/core/ethtool.c b/net/core/ethtool.c
> index d4918ffddda8..fcbed78172a0 100644
> --- a/net/core/ethtool.c
> +++ b/net/core/ethtool.c
...
> @@ -2533,7 +2535,7 @@ static int ethtool_set_fecparam(struct net_device *dev, void __user *useraddr)
>  
>  /* The main entry point in this file.  Called from net/core/dev_ioctl.c */
>  
> -int dev_ethtool(struct net *net, struct ifreq *ifr)
> +int noinline_for_stack dev_ethtool(struct net *net, struct ifreq *ifr)
>  {
>  	struct net_device *dev = __dev_get_by_name(net, ifr->ifr_name);
>  	void __user *useraddr = ifr->ifr_data;

Is this part really needed? AFAICS dev_ethtool() is only called from
dev_ioctl() which is in a different compilation unit so that
dev_ethtool() won't be inlined anyway.

Michal Kubecek