linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] Kconfig.debug: Provide a little extra FRAME

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Message-ID: <Y4DFx20YXDLcuVJm@google.com>
Date:   Fri, 25 Nov 2022 13:40:23 +0000
From:   Lee Jones <lee@...nel.org>
To:     arnd@...db.de, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, nathan@...nel.org,
        maarten.lankhorst@...ux.intel.com, mripard@...nel.org,
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        llvm@...ts.linux.dev, amd-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] Kconfig.debug: Provide a little extra FRAME_WARN
 leeway when KASAN is enabled

On Fri, 25 Nov 2022, Lee Jones wrote:

> When enabled, KASAN enlarges function's stack-frames.  Pushing quite a
> few over the current threshold.  This can mainly be seen on 32-bit
> architectures where the present limit (when !GCC) is a lowly
> 1024-Bytes.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee@...nel.org>
> ---
>  lib/Kconfig.debug | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
> index c3c0b077ade33..82d475168db95 100644
> --- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
> +++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
> @@ -399,6 +399,7 @@ config FRAME_WARN
>  	default 2048 if GCC_PLUGIN_LATENT_ENTROPY
>  	default 2048 if PARISC
>  	default 1536 if (!64BIT && XTENSA)
> +	default 1280 if KASAN && !64BIT
>  	default 1024 if !64BIT
>  	default 2048 if 64BIT
>  	help

Note this also fixes 61 warnings when

  (GCC && !GCC_PLUGIN_LATENT_ENTROPY)

... which as Arnd says should not be enabled by default.  We'll
address that issue once this set has been applied.

-- 
Lee Jones [李琼斯]