[PATCH] inode_diet: Replace inode.u.generic_ip with inode.i_private

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>

2 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/inode.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/inode.c
index 7b4572805db9..b837f12a84ae 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/inode.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/inode.c
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ spufs_new_file(struct super_block *sb, struct dentry *dentry,
 	ret = 0;
 	inode->i_op = &spufs_file_iops;
 	inode->i_fop = fops;
-	inode->u.generic_ip = SPUFS_I(inode)->i_ctx = get_spu_context(ctx);
+	inode->i_private = SPUFS_I(inode)->i_ctx = get_spu_context(ctx);
 	d_add(dentry, inode);
 out:
 	return ret;
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hvCall_inst.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hvCall_inst.c
index 641e6511cf06..446e17d162a5 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hvCall_inst.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hvCall_inst.c
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ static int hcall_inst_seq_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
 
 	rc = seq_open(file, &hcall_inst_seq_ops);
 	seq = file->private_data;
-	seq->private = file->f_dentry->d_inode->u.generic_ip;
+	seq->private = file->f_dentry->d_inode->i_private;
 
 	return rc;
 }