Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-block] Limiting coroutine stack usage

[Peter Lieven]

Am 22.02.2018 um 11:57 schrieb Kevin Wolf:
> Am 20.02.2018 um 22:54 hat Paolo Bonzini geschrieben:
>> On 20/02/2018 18:04, Peter Lieven wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I remember we discussed a long time ago to limit the stack usage of all
>>> functions that are executed in a coroutine
>>> context to a very low value to be able to safely limit the coroutine
>>> stack size as well.
>> IIRC the only issue was that hw/ide/atapi.c has mutual recursion between
>> ide_atapi_cmd_reply_end -> ide_transfer_start -> ahci_start_transfer ->
>> ide_atapi_cmd_reply_end.
>>
>> But perhaps it's not an issue, somebody needs to audit the code.
> I think John intended to get rid of the recursion sometime, but I doubt
> he has had the time so far.

Apart from this is is possible to define special cflags in the Makefile.objs 
just
for a subdirectory? I have patches ready to make the block layer files and
other coroutine users compile with -Wstack-size=2048. But I do not want
to specify each file separately.

Limiting the coroutine size to much could also lead to trouble in some third 
party
libraries that are called from a coroutine context, or not?

Thanks,
Peter