mm: store compound_dtor / compound_order as bytes
authorMatthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com>
Thu, 1 Feb 2018 00:19:02 +0000 (16:19 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 1 Feb 2018 01:18:38 +0000 (17:18 -0800)
commit036e7aa49fb29e0b49b99a56fa5611d4a5b99fb1
tree23f670d823c98fe81823c43c24f015518072bcc9
parent0dd4da5b110c6915d4244b8ed87a1c8d3945224b
mm: store compound_dtor / compound_order as bytes

Neither of these values get even close to 256; compound_dtor is
currently at a maximum of 3, and compound_order can't be over 64.  No
machine has inefficient access to bytes since EV5, and while those are
still supported, we don't optimise for them any more.  This does not
shrink struct page, but it removes an ifdef and frees up 2-6 bytes for
future use.

diff of pahole output:

  struct callback_head callback_head;      /*    32    16 */
  struct {
  long unsigned int compound_head; /*    32     8 */
- unsigned int compound_dtor;      /*    40     4 */
- unsigned int compound_order;     /*    44     4 */
+ unsigned char compound_dtor;     /*    40     1 */
+ unsigned char compound_order;    /*    41     1 */
  };                                       /*    32    16 */
  };                                               /*    32    16 */
  union {

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Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171221000144.GB2980@bombadil.infradead.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171220155552.15884-7-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/mm_types.h