Re: ipv4/tcp.c:4234:1: error: the frame size of 1152 bytes is larger than 1024 bytes [-Werror=frame-larger-than=]

[Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org>]

On Wed, Sep 08, 2021 at 08:59:36AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 8, 2021 at 3:03 AM Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks for the heads-up. I found one instance of this bad practice in
> > hv_apic.c. Presumably that's the one you were referring to.
> 
> Yeah, that must have been the one I saw.
> 
> > However calling into the allocator from that IPI path seems very heavy
> > weight. I will discuss with fellow engineers on how to fix it properly.
> 
> In other places, the options have been fairly straightforward:
> 
>  (a) avoid the allocation entirely.
> 
> I think the main reason hyperv does it is because it wants to clear
> the "current cpu" from the cpumask for the ALL_BUT_SELF case, and if
> you can just instead keep track of that "all but self" bit separately
> and pass it down the call chain, you may not need that allocation at
> all.
[..]
> 
> That said, if you are already just iterating over the mask, doing (a)
> may be trivial. No allocation at all is even better than a percpu one.
> 

Yep. I just wrote two patches for this approach.

Wei.