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Wanpeng Li authored
Nick Desaulniers Reported:

  When building with:
  $ make CC=clang arch/x86/ CFLAGS=-Wframe-larger-than=1000
  The following warning is observed:
  arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c:494:13: warning: stack frame size of 1064 bytes in
  function 'kvm_send_ipi_mask_allbutself' [-Wframe-larger-than=]
  static void kvm_send_ipi_mask_allbutself(const struct cpumask *mask, int
  vector)
              ^
  Debugging with:
  https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/frame-larger-than


  via:
  $ python3 frame_larger_than.py arch/x86/kernel/kvm.o \
    kvm_send_ipi_mask_allbutself
  points to the stack allocated `struct cpumask newmask` in
  `kvm_send_ipi_mask_allbutself`. The size of a `struct cpumask` is
  potentially large, as it's CONFIG_NR_CPUS divided by BITS_PER_LONG for
  the target architecture. CONFIG_NR_CPUS for X86_64 can be as high as
  8192, making a single instance of a `struct cpumask` 1024 B.

This patch fixes it by pre-allocate 1 cpumask variable per cpu and use it for
both pv tlb and pv ipis..

Reported-by: default avatarNick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Acked-by: default avatarNick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarVitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarWanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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