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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2] x86: xen: remove the use of VLAIS
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On 08/01/18 19:49, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> wrote:
>
>> On 08/01/18 17:10, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>>> On Sat, Jan 06, 2018 at 01:39:48PM -0800, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
>>>> Variable Length Arrays In Structs (VLAIS) is not supported by Clang, and
>>>> frowned upon by others.
>>>>
>>>> https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/9/23/500
>>>>
>>>> Here, the VLAIS was used because the size of the bitmap returned from
>>>> xen_mc_entry() depended on possibly (based on kernel configuration)
>>>> runtime sized data. Rather than declaring args as a VLAIS then calling
>>>> sizeof on *args, we calculate the appropriate sizeof args manually.
>>>> Further, we can get rid of the #ifdef's and rely on num_possible_cpus()
>>>> (thanks to a helpful checkpatch warning from an earlier version of this
>>>> patch).
>>>>
>>>> Suggested-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <nick.desaulniers@gmail.com>
>>>> ---
>>>> Changes in v2:
>>>> * Change mask to us DECLARE_BITMAP instead of pointer, as suggested.
>>>> * Update commit message to remove mention of pointer.
>>>> * Update sizeof calculation to work with array rather than pointer.
>>>>
>>>> arch/x86/xen/mmu_pv.c | 8 +++-----
>>>> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/mmu_pv.c b/arch/x86/xen/mmu_pv.c
>>>> index 4d62c07..d850762 100644
>>>> --- a/arch/x86/xen/mmu_pv.c
>>>> +++ b/arch/x86/xen/mmu_pv.c
>>>> @@ -1325,20 +1325,18 @@ static void xen_flush_tlb_others(const struct cpumask *cpus,
>>>> {
>>>> struct {
>>>> struct mmuext_op op;
>>>> -#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
>>>> - DECLARE_BITMAP(mask, num_processors);
>>>> -#else
>>>> DECLARE_BITMAP(mask, NR_CPUS);
>>>> -#endif
>>>> } *args;
>>>
>>> Why is it OK for Xen to place this bitmap on-stack in the first place?
>>> That NR_CPUS thing can be fairly huge.
>>
>> This only a pointer to the bitmap.
>
> What's the maximum NR_CPUs for configs that can run this code, times 8?

Why does this matter? args is a pointer only, so it occupies 8 bytes of
the stack. The structure is only for type correctness.


Juergen

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