Only bit 1 is used, making an unsigned long a total overkill. This brings it from 64 to 32 bytes, which in turn shrinks user_struct from 136 to 128 bytes. Since the latter is allocated with hwalign, this means the total usage goes down from 192 to 128 bytes per object. No functional changes. Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@xxxxxxxxx> --- ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl --git was most unhelpful showing nothing I have no idea who to prod about it, I think it is pretty trivial not needing any discussion. Andrew Morton pulled in some of the changes to the file, so that's my primary recipient. include/linux/ratelimit_types.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/include/linux/ratelimit_types.h b/include/linux/ratelimit_types.h index 002266693e50..765232ce0b5e 100644 --- a/include/linux/ratelimit_types.h +++ b/include/linux/ratelimit_types.h @@ -19,8 +19,8 @@ struct ratelimit_state { int burst; int printed; int missed; + unsigned int flags; unsigned long begin; - unsigned long flags; }; #define RATELIMIT_STATE_INIT_FLAGS(name, interval_init, burst_init, flags_init) { \ -- 2.43.0