netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] ethtool: reduce stack usage

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Message-Id: <20100215.215523.200992193.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 15 Feb 2010 21:55:23 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] ethtool: reduce stack usage

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:24:00 +0100

> dev_ethtool() is currently using 604 bytes of stack, even with gcc-4.4.2
> 
> objdump -d vmlinux | scripts/checkstack.pl
> ...
> 0xc04bbc33 dev_ethtool [vmlinux]:			604
> ...
> Adding noinline attributes to selected functions can reduce stack usage.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>

Applied, thanks Eric.
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