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authorTheodore Ts'o2006-09-27 01:50:46 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds2006-09-27 08:26:17 -0700
commit8e18e2941c53416aa219708e7dcad21fb4bd6794 (patch)
tree44118f8b09556193ac93e0b71aecfa3e1d4bc182 /fs/devpts
parent6a1d9805ec506d8b9d04450997707da5f643d87c (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/devpts')
-rw-r--r--fs/devpts/inode.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/devpts/inode.c b/fs/devpts/inode.c
index f7aef5bb584a..5bf06a10dddf 100644
--- a/fs/devpts/inode.c
+++ b/fs/devpts/inode.c
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ int devpts_pty_new(struct tty_struct *tty)
inode->i_gid = config.setgid ? config.gid : current->fsgid;
inode->i_mtime = inode->i_atime = inode->i_ctime = CURRENT_TIME;
init_special_inode(inode, S_IFCHR|config.mode, device);
- inode->u.generic_ip = tty;
+ inode->i_private = tty;
dentry = get_node(number);
if (!IS_ERR(dentry) && !dentry->d_inode)
@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ struct tty_struct *devpts_get_tty(int number)
tty = NULL;
if (!IS_ERR(dentry)) {
if (dentry->d_inode)
- tty = dentry->d_inode->u.generic_ip;
+ tty = dentry->d_inode->i_private;
dput(dentry);
}