The patch titled inode_diet: Replace inode.u.generic_ip with inode.i_private (gfs) has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is inode_diet-replace-inodeugeneric_ip-with-inodei_private-gfs2.patch See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: inode_diet: Replace inode.u.generic_ip with inode.i_private (gfs) From: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx> 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. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx> Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> --- fs/dlm/debug_fs.c | 2 +- fs/gfs2/inode.c | 2 +- fs/gfs2/meta_io.c | 2 +- fs/gfs2/ops_super.c | 6 +++--- 4 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff -puN fs/dlm/debug_fs.c~inode_diet-replace-inodeugeneric_ip-with-inodei_private-gfs2 fs/dlm/debug_fs.c --- a/fs/dlm/debug_fs.c~inode_diet-replace-inodeugeneric_ip-with-inodei_private-gfs2 +++ a/fs/dlm/debug_fs.c @@ -282,7 +282,7 @@ static int rsb_open(struct inode *inode, return ret; seq = file->private_data; - seq->private = inode->u.generic_ip; + seq->private = inode->i_private; return 0; } diff -puN fs/gfs2/inode.c~inode_diet-replace-inodeugeneric_ip-with-inodei_private-gfs2 fs/gfs2/inode.c --- a/fs/gfs2/inode.c~inode_diet-replace-inodeugeneric_ip-with-inodei_private-gfs2 +++ a/fs/gfs2/inode.c @@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ struct inode *gfs2_inode_lookup(struct s if (inode->i_state & I_NEW) { struct gfs2_sbd *sdp = GFS2_SB(inode); umode_t mode = DT2IF(type); - inode->u.generic_ip = ip; + inode->i_private = ip; inode->i_mode = mode; if (S_ISREG(mode)) { diff -puN fs/gfs2/meta_io.c~inode_diet-replace-inodeugeneric_ip-with-inodei_private-gfs2 fs/gfs2/meta_io.c --- a/fs/gfs2/meta_io.c~inode_diet-replace-inodeugeneric_ip-with-inodei_private-gfs2 +++ a/fs/gfs2/meta_io.c @@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ struct inode *gfs2_aspace_get(struct gfs mapping_set_gfp_mask(aspace->i_mapping, GFP_NOFS); aspace->i_mapping->a_ops = &aspace_aops; aspace->i_size = ~0ULL; - aspace->u.generic_ip = NULL; + aspace->i_private = NULL; insert_inode_hash(aspace); } return aspace; diff -puN fs/gfs2/ops_super.c~inode_diet-replace-inodeugeneric_ip-with-inodei_private-gfs2 fs/gfs2/ops_super.c --- a/fs/gfs2/ops_super.c~inode_diet-replace-inodeugeneric_ip-with-inodei_private-gfs2 +++ a/fs/gfs2/ops_super.c @@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ static int gfs2_write_inode(struct inode struct gfs2_inode *ip = GFS2_I(inode); /* Check this is a "normal" inode */ - if (inode->u.generic_ip) { + if (inode->i_private) { if (current->flags & PF_MEMALLOC) return 0; if (sync) @@ -280,7 +280,7 @@ static void gfs2_clear_inode(struct inod * serves to contain an address space (see rgrp.c, meta_io.c) * which therefore doesn't have its own glocks. */ - if (inode->u.generic_ip) { + if (inode->i_private) { struct gfs2_inode *ip = GFS2_I(inode); gfs2_glock_inode_squish(inode); gfs2_assert(inode->i_sb->s_fs_info, ip->i_gl->gl_state == LM_ST_UNLOCKED); @@ -381,7 +381,7 @@ static void gfs2_delete_inode(struct ino struct gfs2_holder gh; int error; - if (!inode->u.generic_ip) + if (!inode->i_private) goto out; error = gfs2_glock_nq_init(ip->i_gl, LM_ST_EXCLUSIVE, LM_FLAG_TRY_1CB | GL_NOCACHE, &gh); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from tytso@xxxxxxx are ext3-wrong-error-behavior.patch inode_diet-replace-inodeugeneric_ip-with-inodei_private.patch inode-diet-move-i_pipe-into-a-union.patch inode-diet-move-i_bdev-into-a-union.patch inode-diet-move-i_cdev-into-a-union.patch inode-diet-eliminate-i_blksize-and-use-a-per-superblock-default.patch inode_diet-replace-inodeugeneric_ip-with-inodei_private-gfs2.patch inode-diet-eliminate-i_blksize-and-use-a-per-superblock-default-gfs2.patch inode-diet-move-i_pipe-into-a-union-ecryptfs.patch inode-diet-eliminate-i_blksize-and-use-a-per-superblock-default-ecryptfs.patch inode_diet-replace-inodeugeneric_ip-with-inodei_private-reiser4.patch inode-diet-eliminate-i_blksize-and-use-a-per-superblock-default-reiser4.patch statistics-replace-inode-ugeneric_ip-with-i_private.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html