linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 1/2] lib: stackdepot: Add support to configure STACK_HASH

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Message-ID: <647943d6-9a8c-e5f7-a608-0892edfed2ff@infradead.org>
Date:   Mon, 18 Jan 2021 22:54:58 -0800
From:   Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
To:     Vijayanand Jitta <vjitta@...eaurora.org>, minchan@...nel.org,
        glider@...gle.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        dan.j.williams@...el.com, broonie@...nel.org, mhiramat@...nel.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, ylal@...eaurora.org,
        vinmenon@...eaurora.org, Vineet Gupta <vgupta@...opsys.com>,
        "linux-snps-arc@...ts.infradead.org" 
        <linux-snps-arc@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/2] lib: stackdepot: Add support to configure
 STACK_HASH_SIZE

On 1/18/21 10:52 PM, Vijayanand Jitta wrote:
> 
> 
> On 1/19/2021 4:23 AM, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>> On 1/18/21 1:56 AM, vjitta@...eaurora.org wrote:
>>> From: Yogesh Lal <ylal@...eaurora.org>
>>>
>>> Use CONFIG_STACK_HASH_ORDER to configure STACK_HASH_SIZE.
>>>
>>> Aim is to have configurable value for  STACK_HASH_SIZE,
>>> so depend on use case one can configure it.
>>>
>>> One example is of Page Owner, default value of
>>> STACK_HASH_SIZE lead stack depot to consume 8MB of static memory.
>>> Making it configurable and use lower value helps to enable features like
>>> CONFIG_PAGE_OWNER without any significant overhead.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Yogesh Lal <ylal@...eaurora.org>
>>> Signed-off-by: Vinayak Menon <vinmenon@...eaurora.org>
>>> Signed-off-by: Vijayanand Jitta <vjitta@...eaurora.org>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Did you see
>> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/202101050729.cwTd47Yw-lkp@intel.com/
>>
>> It seems that arch/arc/ does not have:
>>    arc-elf-ld: lib/stackdepot.o: in function `filter_irq_stacks':
>>    (.text+0x6): undefined reference to `__irqentry_text_start'
>>>> arc-elf-ld: (.text+0x6): undefined reference to `__irqentry_text_start'
>>>> arc-elf-ld: (.text+0x26): undefined reference to `__irqentry_text_end'
>>>> arc-elf-ld: (.text+0x26): undefined reference to `__irqentry_text_end'
>>>> arc-elf-ld: (.text+0x34): undefined reference to `__softirqentry_text_start'
>>>> arc-elf-ld: (.text+0x34): undefined reference to `__softirqentry_text_start'
>>>> arc-elf-ld: (.text+0x3c): undefined reference to `__softirqentry_text_end'
>>>> arc-elf-ld: (.text+0x3c): undefined reference to `__softirqentry_text_end'
>>
>>
>>
>>
> 
> The above issue seems to be because of a different patch.
> This one
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=505a0ef15f96c6c43ec719c9fc1833d98957bb39
> 
> I didn't really get why you referred that here.

Yes, I noticed that later. Sorry about that.

Maybe Alexander P. can look into it...

thanks.
-- 
~Randy
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