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 --- arch/s390/hypfs/inode.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'arch/s390/hypfs/inode.c') diff --git a/arch/s390/hypfs/inode.c b/arch/s390/hypfs/inode.c index bdade5f2e325..8735024d235b 100644 --- a/arch/s390/hypfs/inode.c +++ b/arch/s390/hypfs/inode.c @@ -104,13 +104,13 @@ static struct inode *hypfs_make_inode(struct super_block *sb, int mode) static void hypfs_drop_inode(struct inode *inode) { - kfree(inode->u.generic_ip); + kfree(inode->i_private); generic_delete_inode(inode); } static int hypfs_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp) { - char *data = filp->f_dentry->d_inode->u.generic_ip; + char *data = filp->f_dentry->d_inode->i_private; struct hypfs_sb_info *fs_info; if (filp->f_mode & FMODE_WRITE) { @@ -352,7 +352,7 @@ static struct dentry *hypfs_create_file(struct super_block *sb, parent->d_inode->i_nlink++; } else BUG(); - inode->u.generic_ip = data; + inode->i_private = data; d_instantiate(dentry, inode); dget(dentry); return dentry; -- cgit v1.2.3