[PATCH 5/9] ARM: atags_to_fdt: don't warn about stack size
Nicolas Pitre
nicolas.pitre at linaro.org
Thu Feb 18 08:13:52 PST 2016
On Thu, 18 Feb 2016, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> The merge_fdt_bootargs() function by definition consumes more than 1024
> bytes of stack because it has a 1024 byte command line on the stack,
> meaning that we always get a warning when building this file:
>
> arch/arm/boot/compressed/atags_to_fdt.c: In function 'merge_fdt_bootargs':
> arch/arm/boot/compressed/atags_to_fdt.c:98:1: warning: the frame size of 1032 bytes is larger than 1024 bytes [-Wframe-larger-than=]
>
> However, as this is the decompressor and we know that it has a very shallow
> call chain, and we do not actually risk overflowing the kernel stack
> at runtime here.
>
> This just shuts up the warning by disabling the warning flag for this
> file.
What about setting the warning to 2048 instead?
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
> ---
> arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile
> index 7a6a58ef8aaf..b5db4c868640 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile
> +++ b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile
> @@ -85,6 +85,8 @@ $(addprefix $(obj)/,$(libfdt) $(libfdt_hdrs)): $(obj)/%: $(srctree)/scripts/dtc/
> $(addprefix $(obj)/,$(libfdt_objs) atags_to_fdt.o): \
> $(addprefix $(obj)/,$(libfdt_hdrs))
>
> +CFLAGS_REMOVE_atags_to_fdt.o += -Wframe-larger-than=${CONFIG_FRAME_WARN}
> +
> ifeq ($(CONFIG_ARM_ATAG_DTB_COMPAT),y)
> OBJS += $(libfdt_objs) atags_to_fdt.o
> endif
> --
> 2.7.0
>
>
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