From 8e18e2941c53416aa219708e7dcad21fb4bd6794 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Theodore Ts'o Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 01:50:46 -0700 Subject: [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" Signed-off-by: Judith Lebzelter Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- drivers/usb/mon/mon_stat.c | 2 +- drivers/usb/mon/mon_text.c | 4 ++-- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'drivers/usb/mon') diff --git a/drivers/usb/mon/mon_stat.c b/drivers/usb/mon/mon_stat.c index 1fe01d994a7..86ad2b381c4 100644 --- a/drivers/usb/mon/mon_stat.c +++ b/drivers/usb/mon/mon_stat.c @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ static int mon_stat_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file) if ((sp = kmalloc(sizeof(struct snap), GFP_KERNEL)) == NULL) return -ENOMEM; - mbus = inode->u.generic_ip; + mbus = inode->i_private; sp->slen = snprintf(sp->str, STAT_BUF_SIZE, "nreaders %d events %u text_lost %u\n", diff --git a/drivers/usb/mon/mon_text.c b/drivers/usb/mon/mon_text.c index f961a770cee..2fd39b4fa16 100644 --- a/drivers/usb/mon/mon_text.c +++ b/drivers/usb/mon/mon_text.c @@ -238,7 +238,7 @@ static int mon_text_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file) int rc; mutex_lock(&mon_lock); - mbus = inode->u.generic_ip; + mbus = inode->i_private; ubus = mbus->u_bus; rp = kzalloc(sizeof(struct mon_reader_text), GFP_KERNEL); @@ -401,7 +401,7 @@ static int mon_text_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *file) struct mon_event_text *ep; mutex_lock(&mon_lock); - mbus = inode->u.generic_ip; + mbus = inode->i_private; if (mbus->nreaders <= 0) { printk(KERN_ERR TAG ": consistency error on close\n"); -- cgit v1.2.3