Re: [PATCH] drm: panel: fix excessive stack usage in td028ttec1_prepare

[Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>]

Hi Arnd,

Thank you for the patch.

On Tue, Jan 07, 2020 at 10:27:33PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> With gcc -O3, the compiler can inline very aggressively,
> leading to rather large stack usage:
> 
> drivers/gpu/drm/panel/panel-tpo-td028ttec1.c: In function 'td028ttec1_prepare':
> drivers/gpu/drm/panel/panel-tpo-td028ttec1.c:233:1: error: the frame size of 2768 bytes is larger than 2048 bytes [-Werror=frame-larger-than=]
>  }
> 
> Marking jbt_reg_write_1() as noinline avoids the case where
> multiple instances of this function get inlined into the same
> stack frame and each one adds a copy of 'tx_buf'.
> 
> Fixes: mmtom ("init/Kconfig: enable -O3 for all arches")
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

Isn't this something that should be fixed at the compiler level ?

> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/panel/panel-tpo-td028ttec1.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/panel/panel-tpo-td028ttec1.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/panel/panel-tpo-td028ttec1.c
> index cf29405a2dbe..17ee5e87141f 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/panel/panel-tpo-td028ttec1.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/panel/panel-tpo-td028ttec1.c
> @@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ static int jbt_ret_write_0(struct td028ttec1_panel *lcd, u8 reg, int *err)
>  	return ret;
>  }
>  
> -static int jbt_reg_write_1(struct td028ttec1_panel *lcd,
> +static int noinline_for_stack jbt_reg_write_1(struct td028ttec1_panel *lcd,
>  			   u8 reg, u8 data, int *err)
>  {
>  	struct spi_device *spi = lcd->spi;

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart