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The following patches reduce the size of the VFS inode structure by 28 bytes on a UP x86. (It would be more on an x86_64 system). This is a 10% reduction in the inode size on a UP kernel that is configured in a production mode (i.e., with no spinlock or other debugging functions enabled; if you want to save memory taken up by in-core inodes, the first thing you should do is disable the debugging options; they are responsible for a huge amount of bloat in the VFS inode structure). This patch: The filesystem or device-specific pointer in the inode is inside a union, which is pretty pointless given that all 30+ users of this field have been using the void pointer. Get rid of the union and rename it to i_private, with a comment to explain who is allowed to use the void pointer. This is just a cleanup, but it allows us to reuse the union 'u' for something something where the union will actually be used. [judith@osdl.org: powerpc build fix] Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Judith Lebzelter <judith@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
27 lines
839 B
C
27 lines
839 B
C
/* -*- linux-c -*- --------------------------------------------------------- *
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* linux/fs/autofs/symlink.c
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*
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* Copyright 1997-1998 Transmeta Corporation -- All Rights Reserved
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*
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* This file is part of the Linux kernel and is made available under
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* the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2, or at your
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* option, any later version, incorporated herein by reference.
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*
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* ------------------------------------------------------------------------- */
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#include "autofs_i.h"
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/* Nothing to release.. */
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static void *autofs_follow_link(struct dentry *dentry, struct nameidata *nd)
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{
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char *s=((struct autofs_symlink *)dentry->d_inode->i_private)->data;
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nd_set_link(nd, s);
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return NULL;
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}
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struct inode_operations autofs_symlink_inode_operations = {
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.readlink = generic_readlink,
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.follow_link = autofs_follow_link
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};
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