[PATCH] 2.5.68 scsi/gdth compile warnings and stack usage
James Bottomley, please apply this patch. It was sent out on linux-scsi last week and drew no responses. This is a patch for the scsi/gdth driver. It was originally done in 2.5.67, but the patch applies to 2.5.68. There are two components to this patch. The first component fixes with compilation warnings (which did uncover real bugs). The other component (by Randy Dunlap) reduces stack size usage in gdth_ioctl(). The compilation warnings occur only when CONFIG_HIGHMEM=y in the kernel configuration file (enable either 4gig or 64gig memory support). This changes the size of the dma_addr_t from u32 to u64. The calls to pci_alloc_consistent return a value of type dma_addr_t. But the code was casting a pointer to what was ony a 32-bit memory location. This seonc component of the patch reduces stack size in scsi/gdth.c::gdth_ioctl() by making each separate ioctl have its own handler function, so that several large data structs are all declared on the stack at the same time. patch_name: gdth-stack_warnings.patch patch_version: 2003-04-14.16:31:30 author: Randy.Dunlap <rddunlap@osdl.org>, Dave.Olien<dmo@osdl.org) description: reduce stack usage in drivers/scsi/gdth.c::gdth_ioctl() from 0xb50 to 0x5c (on P4, gcc 2.96); the large (ioctl) function sizes in gdth.o now are: 150 ioc_event 178 ioc_resetdrv 190 ioc_general 30c ioc_hdrlist 324 ioc_rescan so the largest cumulative size of calling gdth_ioctl() + a specific ioctl is 0x5c + 0x324 = 0x380. Fix compilation warnings in calls to pci_alloc_consistent() that occur only when CONFIG_HIGHMEM=y. The compiler warnings result from dma_addr_t changing in size from u32 to u64. product: Linux product_versions: 2.5.67 changelog: make each ioctl that uses large stack space into its own function; mostly moving lines of code around; duplicates some local data in multiple functions; fix compiler warnings by adding intermediate dma_addr_t local variables to hold returns from pci_alloc_consistent. maintainer: Achim Leubner (achim.leubner@intel.com) diffstat: = drivers/scsi/gdth.c | 664 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------- drivers/scsi/gdth_proc.c | 5 2 files changed, 374 insertions(+), 295 deletions(-) FYI: The killer data structs in gdth_ioctl() (on x86, P4, gcc 2.96) are: sizeof gdth_cmd_str: 336 bytes sizeof gdth_ioctl_general: 356 bytes sizeof gdth_ioctl_event: 308 bytes sizeof gdth_ioctl_lockdrv: 204 bytes sizeof gdth_ioctl_rescan: 406 bytes ###
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