From: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm: remove nrexceptional from inode We no longer track anything in nrexceptional, so remove it, saving 8 bytes per inode. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201026151849.24232-5-willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/inode.c | 2 +- include/linux/fs.h | 2 -- 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/fs/inode.c~mm-remove-nrexceptional-from-inode +++ a/fs/inode.c @@ -529,7 +529,7 @@ void clear_inode(struct inode *inode) */ xa_lock_irq(&inode->i_data.i_pages); BUG_ON(inode->i_data.nrpages); - BUG_ON(inode->i_data.nrexceptional); + BUG_ON(!mapping_empty(&inode->i_data)); xa_unlock_irq(&inode->i_data.i_pages); BUG_ON(!list_empty(&inode->i_data.private_list)); BUG_ON(!(inode->i_state & I_FREEING)); --- a/include/linux/fs.h~mm-remove-nrexceptional-from-inode +++ a/include/linux/fs.h @@ -442,7 +442,6 @@ int pagecache_write_end(struct file *, s * @i_mmap: Tree of private and shared mappings. * @i_mmap_rwsem: Protects @i_mmap and @i_mmap_writable. * @nrpages: Number of page entries, protected by the i_pages lock. - * @nrexceptional: Shadow or DAX entries, protected by the i_pages lock. * @writeback_index: Writeback starts here. * @a_ops: Methods. * @flags: Error bits and flags (AS_*). @@ -463,7 +462,6 @@ struct address_space { struct rb_root_cached i_mmap; struct rw_semaphore i_mmap_rwsem; unsigned long nrpages; - unsigned long nrexceptional; pgoff_t writeback_index; const struct address_space_operations *a_ops; unsigned long flags; _