[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>
diff --git a/security/inode.c b/security/inode.c
index 47eb634..176aace 100644
--- a/security/inode.c
+++ b/security/inode.c
@@ -44,8 +44,8 @@
static int default_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
{
- if (inode->u.generic_ip)
- file->private_data = inode->u.generic_ip;
+ if (inode->i_private)
+ file->private_data = inode->i_private;
return 0;
}
@@ -194,7 +194,7 @@
* directory dentry if set. If this paramater is NULL, then the
* file will be created in the root of the securityfs filesystem.
* @data: a pointer to something that the caller will want to get to later
- * on. The inode.u.generic_ip pointer will point to this value on
+ * on. The inode.i_private pointer will point to this value on
* the open() call.
* @fops: a pointer to a struct file_operations that should be used for
* this file.
@@ -240,7 +240,7 @@
if (fops)
dentry->d_inode->i_fop = fops;
if (data)
- dentry->d_inode->u.generic_ip = data;
+ dentry->d_inode->i_private = data;
}
exit:
return dentry;
