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 --- fs/fuse/control.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'fs/fuse') diff --git a/fs/fuse/control.c b/fs/fuse/control.c index 46fe60b2da2..79ec1f23d4d 100644 --- a/fs/fuse/control.c +++ b/fs/fuse/control.c @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ static struct fuse_conn *fuse_ctl_file_conn_get(struct file *file) { struct fuse_conn *fc; mutex_lock(&fuse_mutex); - fc = file->f_dentry->d_inode->u.generic_ip; + fc = file->f_dentry->d_inode->i_private; if (fc) fc = fuse_conn_get(fc); mutex_unlock(&fuse_mutex); @@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ static struct dentry *fuse_ctl_add_dentry(struct dentry *parent, inode->i_op = iop; inode->i_fop = fop; inode->i_nlink = nlink; - inode->u.generic_ip = fc; + inode->i_private = fc; d_add(dentry, inode); return dentry; } @@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ void fuse_ctl_remove_conn(struct fuse_conn *fc) for (i = fc->ctl_ndents - 1; i >= 0; i--) { struct dentry *dentry = fc->ctl_dentry[i]; - dentry->d_inode->u.generic_ip = NULL; + dentry->d_inode->i_private = NULL; d_drop(dentry); dput(dentry); } -- cgit v1.2.3