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| author | Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> | 2006-09-27 01:50:46 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-09-27 08:26:17 -0700 |
| commit | 8e18e2941c53416aa219708e7dcad21fb4bd6794 (patch) | |
| tree | 44118f8b09556193ac93e0b71aecfa3e1d4bc182 /fs/binfmt_misc.c | |
| parent | 6a1d9805ec506d8b9d04450997707da5f643d87c (diff) | |
[PATCH] inode_diet: Replace inode.u.generic_ip with inode.i_private
The following patches reduce the size of the VFS inode structure by 28 bytes
on a UP x86. (It would be more on an x86_64 system). This is a 10% reduction
in the inode size on a UP kernel that is configured in a production mode
(i.e., with no spinlock or other debugging functions enabled; if you want to
save memory taken up by in-core inodes, the first thing you should do is
disable the debugging options; they are responsible for a huge amount of bloat
in the VFS inode structure).
This patch:
The filesystem or device-specific pointer in the inode is inside a union,
which is pretty pointless given that all 30+ users of this field have been
using the void pointer. Get rid of the union and rename it to i_private, with
a comment to explain who is allowed to use the void pointer. This is just a
cleanup, but it allows us to reuse the union 'u' for something something where
the union will actually be used.
[judith@osdl.org: powerpc build fix]
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Judith Lebzelter <judith@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/binfmt_misc.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/binfmt_misc.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/fs/binfmt_misc.c b/fs/binfmt_misc.c index 34ebbc191e46..6759b9839ce8 100644 --- a/fs/binfmt_misc.c +++ b/fs/binfmt_misc.c @@ -517,7 +517,7 @@ static struct inode *bm_get_inode(struct super_block *sb, int mode) static void bm_clear_inode(struct inode *inode) { - kfree(inode->u.generic_ip); + kfree(inode->i_private); } static void kill_node(Node *e) @@ -545,7 +545,7 @@ static void kill_node(Node *e) static ssize_t bm_entry_read(struct file * file, char __user * buf, size_t nbytes, loff_t *ppos) { - Node *e = file->f_dentry->d_inode->u.generic_ip; + Node *e = file->f_dentry->d_inode->i_private; loff_t pos = *ppos; ssize_t res; char *page; @@ -579,7 +579,7 @@ static ssize_t bm_entry_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buffer, size_t count, loff_t *ppos) { struct dentry *root; - Node *e = file->f_dentry->d_inode->u.generic_ip; + Node *e = file->f_dentry->d_inode->i_private; int res = parse_command(buffer, count); switch (res) { @@ -646,7 +646,7 @@ static ssize_t bm_register_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buffer, } e->dentry = dget(dentry); - inode->u.generic_ip = e; + inode->i_private = e; inode->i_fop = &bm_entry_operations; d_instantiate(dentry, inode); |