Ted noticed a stack-deep callchain through
writepages->ext4_mb_regular_allocator->ext4_mb_init_cache->submit_bh ...
With all the static functions in mballoc.c, gcc helpfully
inlines for us, and we get something like this:
ext4_mb_regular_allocator (232 bytes stack)
ext4_mb_init_cache (232 bytes stack)
submit_bh (starts 464 deeper)
the 2 ext4 functions here get several others inlined; by telling
gcc not to inline them, we can save stack space for when we
head off into submit_bh land and associated block layer callchains.
The following noinlined functions are only called once, so this
won't impact any other callchains:
ext4_mb_regular_allocator (104) (was 232)
ext4_mb_find_by_goal (56) (noinlined)
ext4_mb_init_group (24) (noinlined)
ext4_mb_init_cache (136) (was 232)
ext4_mb_generate_buddy (88) (noinlined)
ext4_mb_generate_from_pa (40) (noinlined)
submit_bh
ext4_mb_simple_scan_group (24) (noinlined)
ext4_mb_scan_aligned (56) (noinlined)
ext4_mb_complex_scan_group (40) (noinlined)
ext4_mb_try_best_found (24) (noinlined)
now when we head off into submit_bh() we're only 264 bytes deeper
in stack than when we entered ext4_mb_regular_allocator()
(vs. 464 bytes before). Every 200 bytes helps. :)
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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