linux/arch/powerpc
Theodore Ts'o 8e18e2941c [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>
2006-09-27 08:26:17 -07:00
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boot [POWERPC] Start arch/powerpc/boot code reorganization 2006-09-20 15:09:58 +10:00
configs Merge branch 'linux-2.6' 2006-09-14 07:07:18 +10:00
kernel [PATCH] Change the name of pagedir_nosave 2006-09-26 08:49:01 -07:00
lib [POWERPC] make spinlocks work in a combined kernel 2006-09-20 14:01:16 +10:00
math-emu Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h> 2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
mm [PATCH] Have Power use add_active_range() and free_area_init_nodes() 2006-09-27 08:26:11 -07:00
oprofile [PATCH] oprofile: Fix unnecessary cleverness 2006-06-26 09:58:17 -07:00
platforms [PATCH] inode_diet: Replace inode.u.generic_ip with inode.i_private 2006-09-27 08:26:17 -07:00
sysdev MSI: Rename PCI_CAP_ID_HT_IRQCONF into PCI_CAP_ID_HT 2006-09-26 17:43:52 -07:00
xmon [POWERPC] print backtrace when entering xmon 2006-09-13 18:39:53 +10:00
Kconfig [PATCH] Have Power use add_active_range() and free_area_init_nodes() 2006-09-27 08:26:11 -07:00
Kconfig.debug [POWERPC] print backtrace when entering xmon 2006-09-13 18:39:53 +10:00
Makefile [POWERPC] Remove stale 64bit on 32bit kernel code 2006-06-15 19:31:26 +10:00