The patch titled
reorder struct prop_local_single to remove padding on 64 bit builds
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
reorder-struct-prop_local_single-to-remove-padding-on-64-bit-builds.patch
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Subject: reorder struct prop_local_single to remove padding on 64 bit builds
From: Richard Kennedy <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
reorder structure to remove 8 bytes of padding on 64 bit builds
(also removes 8 bytes from task_struct)
Signed-off-by: Richard Kennedy <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/proportions.h | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff -puN include/linux/proportions.h~reorder-struct-prop_local_single-to-remove-padding-on-64-bit-builds include/linux/proportions.h
--- a/include/linux/proportions.h~reorder-struct-prop_local_single-to-remove-padding-on-64-bit-builds
+++ a/include/linux/proportions.h
@@ -104,8 +104,8 @@ struct prop_local_single {
* snapshot of the last seen global state
* and a lock protecting this state
*/
- int shift;
unsigned long period;
+ int shift;
spinlock_t lock; /* protect the snapshot state */
};
_
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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