[PATCH] knfsd: Avoid excess stack usage in svc_tcp_recvfrom
.. by allocating the array of 'kvec' in 'struct svc_rqst'. As we plan to increase RPCSVC_MAXPAGES from 8 upto 256, we can no longer allocate an array of this size on the stack. So we allocate it in 'struct svc_rqst'. However svc_rqst contains (indirectly) an array of the same type and size (actually several, but they are in a union). So rather than waste space, we move those arrays out of the separately allocated union and into svc_rqst to share with the kvec moved out of svc_tcp_recvfrom (various arrays are used at different times, so there is no conflict). Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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@@ -192,6 +192,8 @@ struct svc_rqst {
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struct page * *rq_respages; /* points into rq_pages */
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int rq_resused; /* number of pages used for result */
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struct kvec rq_vec[RPCSVC_MAXPAGES]; /* generally useful.. */
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__be32 rq_xid; /* transmission id */
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u32 rq_prog; /* program number */
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u32 rq_vers; /* program version */
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