ipv4/tcp.c:4234:1: error: the frame size of 1152 bytes is larger than 1024 bytes [-Werror=frame-larger-than=]

[Linus Torvalds]

On Wed, Sep 8, 2021 at 2:25 PM Brendan Higgins
<brendanhiggins at google.com> wrote:
>
> I definitely agree that in the cases where KUnit is not actually
> contributing to blowing the stack - struct leak just thinks it is,
> this is fine; however, it sounds like Linus' concerns with KUnit's
> macros go deeper than this.

I don't mind Kunit tests when they don't cause problems, but one very
natural way to use the Kunit test infrastructure does seem to be to
just put a lot of them into one function.

And then the individually fairly small structures just add up.
Probably mainly in some special configurations (ie together with
CONFIG_KASAN_STACK as pointed out by Arnd, but there might be other
cases that cause that issue too) where the compiler then doesn't merge
stack slots.

I wonder if those 'kunit_assert' structures could be split into two:
one part that could be 'static const', and at least shrink the dynamic
stack use that way. Because at a minimun, things like
type/file/line/format-msg seem to be things that really are just
static and const.

Hmm?

          Linus