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authorTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>2006-09-27 01:50:46 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-09-27 08:26:17 -0700
commit8e18e2941c53416aa219708e7dcad21fb4bd6794 (patch)
tree44118f8b09556193ac93e0b71aecfa3e1d4bc182 /drivers/net
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 'drivers/net')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/irda/vlsi_ir.h2
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_debugfs.c2
2 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/irda/vlsi_ir.h b/drivers/net/irda/vlsi_ir.h
index a82a4ba8de4..c37f0bc4c7f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/irda/vlsi_ir.h
+++ b/drivers/net/irda/vlsi_ir.h
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ typedef void irqreturn_t;
/* PDE() introduced in 2.5.4 */
#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS
-#define PDE(inode) ((inode)->u.generic_ip)
+#define PDE(inode) ((inode)->i_private)
#endif
/* irda crc16 calculation exported in 2.5.42 */
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_debugfs.c b/drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_debugfs.c
index 923275ea078..b9df06a06ea 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_debugfs.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_debugfs.c
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ static ssize_t write_file_dummy(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
static int open_file_generic(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
{
- file->private_data = inode->u.generic_ip;
+ file->private_data = inode->i_private;
return 0;
}