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<title>linux.git/drivers/misc/ibmasm, branch v2.6.24</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>Convert files to UTF-8 and some cleanups</title>
<updated>2007-10-19T21:21:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Engelhardt</name>
<email>jengelh@gmx.de</email>
</author>
<published>2007-10-19T21:21:04+00:00</published>
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* Convert files to UTF-8.

  * Also correct some people's names
    (one example is Eißfeldt, which was found in a source file.
    Given that the author used an ß at all in a source file
    indicates that the real name has in fact a 'ß' and not an 'ss',
    which is commonly used as a substitute for 'ß' when limited to
    7bit.)

  * Correct town names (Goettingen -&gt; Göttingen)

  * Update Eberhard Mönkeberg's address (http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/8/313)

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt &lt;jengelh@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk &lt;bunk@kernel.org&gt;
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* Convert files to UTF-8.

  * Also correct some people's names
    (one example is Eißfeldt, which was found in a source file.
    Given that the author used an ß at all in a source file
    indicates that the real name has in fact a 'ß' and not an 'ss',
    which is commonly used as a substitute for 'ß' when limited to
    7bit.)

  * Correct town names (Goettingen -&gt; Göttingen)

  * Update Eberhard Mönkeberg's address (http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/8/313)

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt &lt;jengelh@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk &lt;bunk@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>get rid of input BIT* duplicate defines</title>
<updated>2007-10-19T18:53:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiri Slaby</name>
<email>jirislaby@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2007-10-19T06:40:32+00:00</published>
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get rid of input BIT* duplicate defines

use newly global defined macros for input layer. Also remove includes of
input.h from non-input sources only for BIT macro definiton. Define the
macro temporarily in local manner, all those local definitons will be
removed further in this patchset (to not break bisecting).
BIT macro will be globally defined (1&lt;&lt;x)

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jirislaby@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;dtor@mail.ru&gt;
Acked-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: &lt;lenb@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Marcel Holtmann &lt;marcel@holtmann.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;perex@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab &lt;mchehab@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;vernux@us.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;malattia@linux.it&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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get rid of input BIT* duplicate defines

use newly global defined macros for input layer. Also remove includes of
input.h from non-input sources only for BIT macro definiton. Define the
macro temporarily in local manner, all those local definitons will be
removed further in this patchset (to not break bisecting).
BIT macro will be globally defined (1&lt;&lt;x)

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jirislaby@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;dtor@mail.ru&gt;
Acked-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: &lt;lenb@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Marcel Holtmann &lt;marcel@holtmann.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;perex@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab &lt;mchehab@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;vernux@us.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;malattia@linux.it&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>some kmalloc/memset -&gt;kzalloc (tree wide)</title>
<updated>2007-07-19T17:04:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yoann Padioleau</name>
<email>padator@wanadoo.fr</email>
</author>
<published>2007-07-19T08:49:03+00:00</published>
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Transform some calls to kmalloc/memset to a single kzalloc (or kcalloc).

Here is a short excerpt of the semantic patch performing
this transformation:

@@
type T2;
expression x;
identifier f,fld;
expression E;
expression E1,E2;
expression e1,e2,e3,y;
statement S;
@@

 x =
- kmalloc
+ kzalloc
  (E1,E2)
  ...  when != \(x-&gt;fld=E;\|y=f(...,x,...);\|f(...,x,...);\|x=E;\|while(...) S\|for(e1;e2;e3) S\)
- memset((T2)x,0,E1);

@@
expression E1,E2,E3;
@@

- kzalloc(E1 * E2,E3)
+ kcalloc(E1,E2,E3)

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: get kcalloc args the right way around]
Signed-off-by: Yoann Padioleau &lt;padator@wanadoo.fr&gt;
Cc: Richard Henderson &lt;rth@twiddle.net&gt;
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky &lt;ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru&gt;
Acked-by: Russell King &lt;rmk@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Bryan Wu &lt;bryan.wu@analog.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jirislaby@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Airlie &lt;airlied@linux.ie&gt;
Acked-by: Roland Dreier &lt;rolandd@cisco.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov &lt;dtor@mail.ru&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab &lt;mchehab@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Pierre Ossman &lt;drzeus-list@drzeus.cx&gt;
Cc: Jeff Garzik &lt;jeff@garzik.org&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Acked-by: Greg KH &lt;greg@kroah.com&gt;
Cc: James Bottomley &lt;James.Bottomley@steeleye.com&gt;
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" &lt;adaplas@pol.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Transform some calls to kmalloc/memset to a single kzalloc (or kcalloc).

Here is a short excerpt of the semantic patch performing
this transformation:

@@
type T2;
expression x;
identifier f,fld;
expression E;
expression E1,E2;
expression e1,e2,e3,y;
statement S;
@@

 x =
- kmalloc
+ kzalloc
  (E1,E2)
  ...  when != \(x-&gt;fld=E;\|y=f(...,x,...);\|f(...,x,...);\|x=E;\|while(...) S\|for(e1;e2;e3) S\)
- memset((T2)x,0,E1);

@@
expression E1,E2,E3;
@@

- kzalloc(E1 * E2,E3)
+ kcalloc(E1,E2,E3)

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: get kcalloc args the right way around]
Signed-off-by: Yoann Padioleau &lt;padator@wanadoo.fr&gt;
Cc: Richard Henderson &lt;rth@twiddle.net&gt;
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky &lt;ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru&gt;
Acked-by: Russell King &lt;rmk@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Bryan Wu &lt;bryan.wu@analog.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jirislaby@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Airlie &lt;airlied@linux.ie&gt;
Acked-by: Roland Dreier &lt;rolandd@cisco.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov &lt;dtor@mail.ru&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab &lt;mchehab@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Pierre Ossman &lt;drzeus-list@drzeus.cx&gt;
Cc: Jeff Garzik &lt;jeff@garzik.org&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Acked-by: Greg KH &lt;greg@kroah.com&gt;
Cc: James Bottomley &lt;James.Bottomley@steeleye.com&gt;
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" &lt;adaplas@pol.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>IBMASM: miscellaneous fixes</title>
<updated>2007-07-17T17:23:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dmitry Torokhov</name>
<email>dtor@insightbb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2007-07-17T11:04:01+00:00</published>
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IBMASM: miscellaneous fixes

Fix some minor issues, such as:
 - properly set up ID of keyboard device (was mixed up with mouse)
 - constify translation tables
 - change some variables to #defines
 - set up input device's parent to form proper sysfs hierarchy
 - minor formatting changes

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov &lt;dtor@mail.ru&gt;
Cc: Vernon Mauery &lt;vernux@us.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Max Asbock &lt;masbock@us.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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IBMASM: miscellaneous fixes

Fix some minor issues, such as:
 - properly set up ID of keyboard device (was mixed up with mouse)
 - constify translation tables
 - change some variables to #defines
 - set up input device's parent to form proper sysfs hierarchy
 - minor formatting changes

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov &lt;dtor@mail.ru&gt;
Cc: Vernon Mauery &lt;vernux@us.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Max Asbock &lt;masbock@us.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>IBMASM: dont use extern in function declarations</title>
<updated>2007-07-17T17:23:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dmitry Torokhov</name>
<email>dtor@insightbb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2007-07-17T11:04:00+00:00</published>
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IBMASM: don't use extern in function declarations

We normally don't use extern in function declarations located in header files.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov &lt;dtor@mail.ru&gt;
Cc: Vernon Mauery &lt;vernux@us.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Max Asbock &lt;masbock@us.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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IBMASM: don't use extern in function declarations

We normally don't use extern in function declarations located in header files.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov &lt;dtor@mail.ru&gt;
Cc: Vernon Mauery &lt;vernux@us.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Max Asbock &lt;masbock@us.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>IBMASM: whitespace cleanup</title>
<updated>2007-07-17T17:23:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dmitry Torokhov</name>
<email>dtor@insightbb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2007-07-17T11:03:58+00:00</published>
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IBMASM: whitespace cleanup

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov &lt;dtor@mail.ru&gt;
Cc: Vernon Mauery &lt;vernux@us.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Max Asbock &lt;masbock@us.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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IBMASM: whitespace cleanup

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov &lt;dtor@mail.ru&gt;
Cc: Vernon Mauery &lt;vernux@us.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Max Asbock &lt;masbock@us.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>[PATCH] mark struct file_operations const 5</title>
<updated>2007-02-12T17:48:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arjan van de Ven</name>
<email>arjan@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2007-02-12T08:55:34+00:00</published>
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Many struct file_operations in the kernel can be "const".  Marking them const
moves these to the .rodata section, which avoids false sharing with potential
dirty data.  In addition it'll catch accidental writes at compile time to
these shared resources.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven &lt;arjan@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Many struct file_operations in the kernel can be "const".  Marking them const
moves these to the .rodata section, which avoids false sharing with potential
dirty data.  In addition it'll catch accidental writes at compile time to
these shared resources.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven &lt;arjan@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>IRQ: Maintain regs pointer globally rather than passing to IRQ handlers</title>
<updated>2006-10-05T14:10:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2006-10-05T13:55:46+00:00</published>
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Maintain a per-CPU global "struct pt_regs *" variable which can be used instead
of passing regs around manually through all ~1800 interrupt handlers in the
Linux kernel.

The regs pointer is used in few places, but it potentially costs both stack
space and code to pass it around.  On the FRV arch, removing the regs parameter
from all the genirq function results in a 20% speed up of the IRQ exit path
(ie: from leaving timer_interrupt() to leaving do_IRQ()).

Where appropriate, an arch may override the generic storage facility and do
something different with the variable.  On FRV, for instance, the address is
maintained in GR28 at all times inside the kernel as part of general exception
handling.

Having looked over the code, it appears that the parameter may be handed down
through up to twenty or so layers of functions.  Consider a USB character
device attached to a USB hub, attached to a USB controller that posts its
interrupts through a cascaded auxiliary interrupt controller.  A character
device driver may want to pass regs to the sysrq handler through the input
layer which adds another few layers of parameter passing.

I've build this code with allyesconfig for x86_64 and i386.  I've runtested the
main part of the code on FRV and i386, though I can't test most of the drivers.
I've also done partial conversion for powerpc and MIPS - these at least compile
with minimal configurations.

This will affect all archs.  Mostly the changes should be relatively easy.
Take do_IRQ(), store the regs pointer at the beginning, saving the old one:

	struct pt_regs *old_regs = set_irq_regs(regs);

And put the old one back at the end:

	set_irq_regs(old_regs);

Don't pass regs through to generic_handle_irq() or __do_IRQ().

In timer_interrupt(), this sort of change will be necessary:

	-	update_process_times(user_mode(regs));
	-	profile_tick(CPU_PROFILING, regs);
	+	update_process_times(user_mode(get_irq_regs()));
	+	profile_tick(CPU_PROFILING);

I'd like to move update_process_times()'s use of get_irq_regs() into itself,
except that i386, alone of the archs, uses something other than user_mode().

Some notes on the interrupt handling in the drivers:

 (*) input_dev() is now gone entirely.  The regs pointer is no longer stored in
     the input_dev struct.

 (*) finish_unlinks() in drivers/usb/host/ohci-q.c needs checking.  It does
     something different depending on whether it's been supplied with a regs
     pointer or not.

 (*) Various IRQ handler function pointers have been moved to type
     irq_handler_t.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
(cherry picked from 1b16e7ac850969f38b375e511e3fa2f474a33867 commit)
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Maintain a per-CPU global "struct pt_regs *" variable which can be used instead
of passing regs around manually through all ~1800 interrupt handlers in the
Linux kernel.

The regs pointer is used in few places, but it potentially costs both stack
space and code to pass it around.  On the FRV arch, removing the regs parameter
from all the genirq function results in a 20% speed up of the IRQ exit path
(ie: from leaving timer_interrupt() to leaving do_IRQ()).

Where appropriate, an arch may override the generic storage facility and do
something different with the variable.  On FRV, for instance, the address is
maintained in GR28 at all times inside the kernel as part of general exception
handling.

Having looked over the code, it appears that the parameter may be handed down
through up to twenty or so layers of functions.  Consider a USB character
device attached to a USB hub, attached to a USB controller that posts its
interrupts through a cascaded auxiliary interrupt controller.  A character
device driver may want to pass regs to the sysrq handler through the input
layer which adds another few layers of parameter passing.

I've build this code with allyesconfig for x86_64 and i386.  I've runtested the
main part of the code on FRV and i386, though I can't test most of the drivers.
I've also done partial conversion for powerpc and MIPS - these at least compile
with minimal configurations.

This will affect all archs.  Mostly the changes should be relatively easy.
Take do_IRQ(), store the regs pointer at the beginning, saving the old one:

	struct pt_regs *old_regs = set_irq_regs(regs);

And put the old one back at the end:

	set_irq_regs(old_regs);

Don't pass regs through to generic_handle_irq() or __do_IRQ().

In timer_interrupt(), this sort of change will be necessary:

	-	update_process_times(user_mode(regs));
	-	profile_tick(CPU_PROFILING, regs);
	+	update_process_times(user_mode(get_irq_regs()));
	+	profile_tick(CPU_PROFILING);

I'd like to move update_process_times()'s use of get_irq_regs() into itself,
except that i386, alone of the archs, uses something other than user_mode().

Some notes on the interrupt handling in the drivers:

 (*) input_dev() is now gone entirely.  The regs pointer is no longer stored in
     the input_dev struct.

 (*) finish_unlinks() in drivers/usb/host/ohci-q.c needs checking.  It does
     something different depending on whether it's been supplied with a regs
     pointer or not.

 (*) Various IRQ handler function pointers have been moved to type
     irq_handler_t.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
(cherry picked from 1b16e7ac850969f38b375e511e3fa2f474a33867 commit)
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>[PATCH] inode-diet: Eliminate i_blksize from the inode structure</title>
<updated>2006-09-27T15:26:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Theodore Ts'o</name>
<email>tytso@mit.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2006-09-27T08:50:49+00:00</published>
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This eliminates the i_blksize field from struct inode.  Filesystems that want
to provide a per-inode st_blksize can do so by providing their own getattr
routine instead of using the generic_fillattr() function.

Note that some filesystems were providing pretty much random (and incorrect)
values for i_blksize.

[bunk@stusta.de: cleanup]
[akpm@osdl.org: generic_fillattr() fix]
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk &lt;bunk@stusta.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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This eliminates the i_blksize field from struct inode.  Filesystems that want
to provide a per-inode st_blksize can do so by providing their own getattr
routine instead of using the generic_fillattr() function.

Note that some filesystems were providing pretty much random (and incorrect)
values for i_blksize.

[bunk@stusta.de: cleanup]
[akpm@osdl.org: generic_fillattr() fix]
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk &lt;bunk@stusta.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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<title>[PATCH] inode_diet: Replace inode.u.generic_ip with inode.i_private</title>
<updated>2006-09-27T15:26:17+00:00</updated>
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<name>Theodore Ts'o</name>
<email>tytso@mit.edu</email>
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<published>2006-09-27T08:50:46+00:00</published>
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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" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Judith Lebzelter &lt;judith@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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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" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Judith Lebzelter &lt;judith@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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