The patch titled
sched: reorder signal_struct to remove 8 bytes on 64 bit builds
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
sched-reorder-signal_struct-to-remove-8-bytes-on-64-bit-builds.patch
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Subject: sched: reorder signal_struct to remove 8 bytes on 64 bit builds
From: Richard Kennedy <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
reorder structure to remove 8 bytes of padding on 64 bit builds
Signed-off-by: Richard Kennedy <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/sched.h | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff -puN include/linux/sched.h~sched-reorder-signal_struct-to-remove-8-bytes-on-64-bit-builds include/linux/sched.h
--- a/include/linux/sched.h~sched-reorder-signal_struct-to-remove-8-bytes-on-64-bit-builds
+++ a/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -451,8 +451,8 @@ struct signal_struct {
* - everyone except group_exit_task is stopped during signal delivery
* of fatal signals, group_exit_task processes the signal.
*/
- struct task_struct *group_exit_task;
int notify_count;
+ struct task_struct *group_exit_task;
/* thread group stop support, overloads group_exit_code too */
int group_stop_count;
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
hrtimer-reorder-struct-hrtimer-to-save-8-bytes-on-64-bit-builds.patch
sched-reorder-signal_struct-to-remove-8-bytes-on-64-bit-builds.patch
sched-reorder-struct-sched_rt_entity-to-remove-padding-on-64-bit-builds.patch
reorder-struct-prop_local_single-to-remove-padding-on-64-bit-builds.patch
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