Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:31:10 +0100 (CET) | | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH][trivial] crypto: tcrypt - reduce stack size |
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On Wed, 25 Feb 2009, Herbert Xu wrote: > On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 03:24:25PM +0100, Frank Seidel wrote: > > Herbert Xu wrote: > > >> - char output[1024]; > > > > > > How about just making it static? > > > > Well, it was static before. But there > > are efforts to reduce current stack memory > > footprints. > > Well if it's static it won't be using any stack memory.
Probably people should be reminded tcrypt can only be a module, not built-in, so it won't waste precious unswappable kernel memory if it's static.
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