Re: [PATCH] drm/amdgpu: make DRM_AMD_DC x86-only again

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Mon, Dec 7, 2020 at 9:50 PM Christian König <christian.koenig@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Am 07.12.20 um 21:47 schrieb Alex Deucher:
> > On Fri, Dec 4, 2020 at 3:13 AM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> >>
> >> As the DRM_AMD_DC_DCN3_0 code was x86-only and fails to build on
> >> arm64, merging it into DRM_AMD_DC means that the top-level symbol
> >> is now x86-only as well.
> >>
> >> Compilation fails on arm64 with clang-12 with
> >>
> >> drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/../display/dc/dml/dcn30/display_mode_vba_30.c:3641:6: error: stack frame size of 2416 bytes in function 'dml30_ModeSupportAndSystemConfigurationFull' [-Werror,-Wframe-larger-than=]
> >> void dml30_ModeSupportAndSystemConfigurationFull(struct display_mode_lib *mode_lib)
> >>
> >> I tried to see if the stack usage can be reduced, but this is code
> >> that is described as "This file is gcc-parsable HW gospel, coming
> >> straight from HW engineers." and is written in a way that is inherently
> >> nonportable and not meant to be understood by humans.
> >>
> >> There are probably no non-x86 users of this code, so simplify
> >> the dependency list accordingly.
> > + Daniel, Timothy
> >
> > Others contributed code to enable this on PPC64 and ARM64.
> > Unfortunately, we don't have these platforms to test with within AMD.
> > Does PPC64 have the same stack limitations as ARM64?  Harry, Leo, can
> > you take a look at fixing the stack usage?
>
> This reminds me that I wanted to reply on this.
>
> 2416 is even to much on x86 if you add -Werror :)
>
> So this needs to be fixed anyway.

Right, looking at my latest randconfig logs, I see the same problem on x86
builds with clang as well, though I'm not entirely sure which other
configuration
options are needed to trigger it.

So my patch can be disregarded, but I agree this needs a better fix,
either in clang or in the dcn driver.

       Arnd