The patch titled pid: reduce code size by using a pointer to iterate over array has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was pid-reduce-code-size-by-using-a-pointer-to-iterate-over-array.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: pid: reduce code size by using a pointer to iterate over array From: André Goddard Rosa <andre.goddard@xxxxxxxxx> It decreases code size by 16 bytes on my gcc 4.4.1 on Core 2: text data bss dec hex filename 4314 2216 8 6538 198a kernel/pid.o-BEFORE 4298 2216 8 6522 197a kernel/pid.o-AFTER Signed-off-by: André Goddard Rosa <andre.goddard@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/pid.c | 5 ++--- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff -puN kernel/pid.c~pid-reduce-code-size-by-using-a-pointer-to-iterate-over-array kernel/pid.c --- a/kernel/pid.c~pid-reduce-code-size-by-using-a-pointer-to-iterate-over-array +++ a/kernel/pid.c @@ -269,12 +269,11 @@ struct pid *alloc_pid(struct pid_namespa for (type = 0; type < PIDTYPE_MAX; ++type) INIT_HLIST_HEAD(&pid->tasks[type]); + upid = pid->numbers + ns->level; spin_lock_irq(&pidmap_lock); - for (i = ns->level; i >= 0; i--) { - upid = &pid->numbers[i]; + for ( ; upid >= pid->numbers; --upid) hlist_add_head_rcu(&upid->pid_chain, &pid_hash[pid_hashfn(upid->nr, upid->ns)]); - } spin_unlock_irq(&pidmap_lock); out: _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from andre.goddard@xxxxxxxxx are origin.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