linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 16/20] Staging: hv: vmbus: Do not allocate struct hv_device

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Date:	Tue, 13 Sep 2011 14:41:28 -0400
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	"K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@...rosoft.com>
Cc:	gregkh@...e.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	devel@...uxdriverproject.org, virtualization@...ts.osdl.org,
	Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 16/20] Staging: hv: vmbus: Do not allocate struct
 hv_device_info on the stack

On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 10:59:52AM -0700, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote:
> struct hv_device_info is about 101 bytes in size. Do not allocate this structure
> on the stack.

The correct fix is to kill that structure entirely but implementing
each attribute separately.

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