linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/4] zstd: move params structure to global variable to reduce stack usage

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Date:   Mon, 3 Jun 2019 14:47:28 -0700
From:   Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Maninder Singh <maninder1.s@...sung.com>
Cc:     herbert@...dor.apana.org.au, davem@...emloft.net,
        keescook@...omium.org, gustavo@...eddedor.com, joe@...ches.com,
        linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        a.sahrawat@...sung.com, pankaj.m@...sung.com, v.narang@...sung.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] zstd: move params structure to global variable to
 reduce  stack usage

On Mon,  3 Jun 2019 14:32:05 +0530 Maninder Singh <maninder1.s@...sung.com> wrote:

>
> Subject: [PATCH 3/4] zstd: move params structure to global variable to reduce  stack usage

If this affected lib/zstd/ I'd be alarmed.  But it's a client of
lib/zstd that is choosing to have a single kernel-wide copy.  I'll
rewrite this patch title to "crypto/zstd.c: ...".