From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail203.messagelabs.com (mail203.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.243]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FECE6B01AF for ; Fri, 18 Jun 2010 17:39:25 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 14:38:51 -0700 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH] mempolicy: reduce stack size of migrate_pages() Message-Id: <20100618143851.0661daa2.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20100616130040.3831.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> References: <20100616130040.3831.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: KOSAKI Motohiro Cc: Christoph Lameter , linux-mm , LKML List-ID: On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:36:57 +0900 (JST) KOSAKI Motohiro wrote: > > Now, migrate_pages() are using >500 bytes stack. This patch reduce it. > > mm/mempolicy.c: In function 'sys_migrate_pages': > mm/mempolicy.c:1344: warning: the frame size of 528 bytes is larger than > 512 bytes > > Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro > Cc: Christoph Lameter > --- > mm/mempolicy.c | 35 ++++++++++++++++++++++------------- > 1 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c > index 13b09bd..1116427 100644 > --- a/mm/mempolicy.c > +++ b/mm/mempolicy.c > @@ -1275,33 +1275,39 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(migrate_pages, pid_t, pid, unsigned long, maxnode, > const unsigned long __user *, new_nodes) > { > const struct cred *cred = current_cred(), *tcred; > - struct mm_struct *mm; > + struct mm_struct *mm = NULL; > struct task_struct *task; > - nodemask_t old; > - nodemask_t new; > nodemask_t task_nodes; > int err; > + NODEMASK_SCRATCH(scratch); > + nodemask_t *old = &scratch->mask1; > + nodemask_t *new = &scratch->mask2; > > + if (!scratch) > + return -ENOMEM; It doesn't matter in practice, but it makes me all queazy to see code which plays with pointers which might be NULL. --- a/mm/mempolicy.c~mempolicy-reduce-stack-size-of-migrate_pages-fix +++ a/mm/mempolicy.c @@ -1279,13 +1279,16 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(migrate_pages, pid_t, pi struct task_struct *task; nodemask_t task_nodes; int err; + nodemask_t *old; + nodemask_t *new; NODEMASK_SCRATCH(scratch); - nodemask_t *old = &scratch->mask1; - nodemask_t *new = &scratch->mask2; if (!scratch) return -ENOMEM; + old = &scratch->mask1; + new = &scratch->mask2; + err = get_nodes(old, old_nodes, maxnode); if (err) goto out; _ -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org