[PATCH v3] cpufreq: powernv: fix stack bloat and hard limit on num cpus
Viresh Kumar
viresh.kumar at linaro.org
Thu Oct 31 20:22:53 AEDT 2019
On Thu, 31 Oct 2019 at 10:52, John Hubbard <jhubbard at nvidia.com> wrote:
>
> The following build warning occurred on powerpc 64-bit builds:
>
> drivers/cpufreq/powernv-cpufreq.c: In function 'init_chip_info':
> drivers/cpufreq/powernv-cpufreq.c:1070:1: warning: the frame size of
> 1040 bytes is larger than 1024 bytes [-Wframe-larger-than=]
>
> This is with a cross-compiler based on gcc 8.1.0, which I got from:
> https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/tools/crosstool/files/bin/x86_64/8.1.0/
>
> The warning is due to putting 1024 bytes on the stack:
>
> unsigned int chip[256];
>
> ...and it's also undesirable to have a hard limit on the number of
> CPUs here.
>
> Fix both problems by dynamically allocating based on num_possible_cpus,
> as recommended by Michael Ellerman.
>
> Fixes: 053819e0bf840 ("cpufreq: powernv: Handle throttling due to Pmax capping at chip level")
> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
> Cc: Shilpasri G Bhat <shilpa.bhat at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Cc: Preeti U Murthy <preeti at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar at linaro.org>
> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw at rjwysocki.net>
> Cc: linux-pm at vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linuxppc-dev at lists.ozlabs.org
> Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard at nvidia.com>
> ---
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar at linaro.org>
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