linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] x86/microcode for v3.9-rc1

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Message-ID: <20130228235238.GF9767@pd.tnic>
Date:	Fri, 1 Mar 2013 00:52:38 +0100
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:	"Yu, Fenghua" <fenghua.yu@...el.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...ux.intel.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] x86/microcode for v3.9-rc1

On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 11:28:06PM +0000, Yu, Fenghua wrote:
>> gcc is warning that the function is using lots of stack. In the
>> context that it is running in this is most likely not a problem
>> given how small the overrun is, but it might be worthwhile to see if
>> there is anything which can be moved out to static storage or some
>> other variant.
>>
>> Static storage is tricky to use in this context since it runs in
>> flat linear mode (without paging, and therefore without the +3 GB
>> offset) on 32 bits.
>
> The errors might be related to the arrays defined
> mc_saved_tmp[MAX_UCODE_COUNT].
>
> Could you send your .config to me so that I can reproduce the issue?
> I don't see the issue in my build environment and in Fengguang's test
> environment.

Ok, forget it. It was some local .config file corruption which caused
include/generated/autoconf.h and include/config/auto.conf to have a line

CONFIG_FRAME_WARN=1024

which would cause the warnings.

The 1024 ceiling value is also consistent with the warnings complaining
about something being > 1024 bytes.

Default CONFIG_FRAME_WARN on x86_64 is 2048 which explains why those
warnings never trigger on 64-bit.

So, we all can relax ourselves, especially I :-)

Thanks.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

Sent from a fat crate under my desk. Formatting is fine.
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