linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] soc/tegra: pmc: Don't allocate struct tegra

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Date:   Tue, 21 Mar 2017 10:37:29 +0000
From:   Jon Hunter <jonathanh@...dia.com>
To:     Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>,
        Stephen Warren <swarren@...dotorg.org>,
        Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...il.com>,
        "Alexandre Courbot" <gnurou@...il.com>
CC:     <linaro-kernel@...ts.linaro.org>, <linux-tegra@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] soc/tegra: pmc: Don't allocate struct tegra_powergate on
 stack


On 21/03/17 05:24, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> The size of the struct tegra_powergate is quite big and if any more
> fields are added to the internal genpd structure, following warnings are
> thrown:
> 
> drivers/soc/tegra/pmc.c:577:1: warning: the frame size of 1176 bytes is larger than 1024 bytes [-Wframe-larger-than=]

Hmmm ... AFAICT the size of the tegra_powergate struct is 312 bytes
(based upon next-20170321) and so it looks like something massive needs
to be added to the genpd struct to blow this up to over 1024 bytes. Are
there some genpd changes in-flight that are causing this?

Cheers
Jon

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