mainline build failure of powerpc allmodconfig for prom_init_check
David Laight
David.Laight at ACULAB.COM
Mon Jul 18 17:51:45 AEST 2022
From: Michael Ellerman
> Sent: 18 July 2022 05:41
...
> So we're memsetting all of args to 254, not zero.
>
> That's happening because allmodconfig with gcc 12 enables
> CONFIG_INIT_STACK_ALL_PATTERN, whereas gcc 11 doesn't.
I can't help feeling it would be better if that generated
a call to a memset64() function.
Saving loads of tests at the top of the function,
and (most of?) the constant expansion to 64bit.
Although and explicit 'stack clear' function would be better
for the kernel - since it would give the option of patching
it away at startup.
I really can't help feeling that initialising on-stack
arrays will kill performance.
While kernel stack frames have to be relatively small,
in userspace very large on-stack arrays can be allocated
(and correctly bound checked) knowing that the cost is
minimal (maybe a TLB miss).
David
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