Commit 036e7aa4 authored by Matthew Wilcox's avatar Matthew Wilcox Committed by Linus Torvalds

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 {

[mawilcox@microsoft.com: add comment]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171221000144.GB2980@bombadil.infradead.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171220155552.15884-7-willy@infradead.orgSigned-off-by: default avatarMatthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com>
Acked-by: default avatarKirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: default avatarMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMatthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 0dd4da5b
......@@ -136,19 +136,9 @@ struct page {
unsigned long compound_head; /* If bit zero is set */
/* First tail page only */
#ifdef CONFIG_64BIT
/*
* On 64 bit system we have enough space in struct page
* to encode compound_dtor and compound_order with
* unsigned int. It can help compiler generate better or
* smaller code on some archtectures.
*/
unsigned int compound_dtor;
unsigned int compound_order;
#else
unsigned short int compound_dtor;
unsigned short int compound_order;
#endif
unsigned char compound_dtor;
unsigned char compound_order;
/* two/six bytes available here */
};
#if defined(CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE) && USE_SPLIT_PMD_PTLOCKS
......
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