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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 /drivers/misc | |
| parent | [PATCH] fat: cleanup fat_get_block(s) (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-8e18e2941c53416aa219708e7dcad21fb4bd6794.tar.xz linux-dev-8e18e2941c53416aa219708e7dcad21fb4bd6794.zip | |
[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 'drivers/misc')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/misc/ibmasm/ibmasmfs.c | 16 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/misc/ibmasm/ibmasmfs.c b/drivers/misc/ibmasm/ibmasmfs.c index 4a35caff5d02..0e909b617226 100644 --- a/drivers/misc/ibmasm/ibmasmfs.c +++ b/drivers/misc/ibmasm/ibmasmfs.c @@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ static struct dentry *ibmasmfs_create_file (struct super_block *sb, } inode->i_fop = fops; - inode->u.generic_ip = data; + inode->i_private = data; d_add(dentry, inode); return dentry; @@ -244,7 +244,7 @@ static int command_file_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file) { struct ibmasmfs_command_data *command_data; - if (!inode->u.generic_ip) + if (!inode->i_private) return -ENODEV; command_data = kmalloc(sizeof(struct ibmasmfs_command_data), GFP_KERNEL); @@ -252,7 +252,7 @@ static int command_file_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file) return -ENOMEM; command_data->command = NULL; - command_data->sp = inode->u.generic_ip; + command_data->sp = inode->i_private; file->private_data = command_data; return 0; } @@ -351,10 +351,10 @@ static int event_file_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file) struct ibmasmfs_event_data *event_data; struct service_processor *sp; - if (!inode->u.generic_ip) + if (!inode->i_private) return -ENODEV; - sp = inode->u.generic_ip; + sp = inode->i_private; event_data = kmalloc(sizeof(struct ibmasmfs_event_data), GFP_KERNEL); if (!event_data) @@ -439,14 +439,14 @@ static int r_heartbeat_file_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file) { struct ibmasmfs_heartbeat_data *rhbeat; - if (!inode->u.generic_ip) + if (!inode->i_private) return -ENODEV; rhbeat = kmalloc(sizeof(struct ibmasmfs_heartbeat_data), GFP_KERNEL); if (!rhbeat) return -ENOMEM; - rhbeat->sp = (struct service_processor *)inode->u.generic_ip; + rhbeat->sp = inode->i_private; rhbeat->active = 0; ibmasm_init_reverse_heartbeat(rhbeat->sp, &rhbeat->heartbeat); file->private_data = rhbeat; @@ -508,7 +508,7 @@ static ssize_t r_heartbeat_file_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf, static int remote_settings_file_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file) { - file->private_data = inode->u.generic_ip; + file->private_data = inode->i_private; return 0; } |