[PATCH] Shrink thread_info a bit
Baruch Siach
baruch at tkos.co.il
Mon Oct 24 09:06:19 EDT 2011
Hi Russell,
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 01:48:18PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> Thread info comes in on Versatile Express at 752 bytes in size, which
> is quite large. Of this, the crunch state is 184 bytes, which is only
> used on Cirrus Logic devices.
>
> It is wasteful to have this in every kernel when Cirrus Logic CPUs
> are not that widely used. So make this conditional.
>
> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel at arm.linux.org.uk>
> ---
> arch/arm/include/asm/thread_info.h | 2 ++
> arch/arm/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 2 ++
> 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/thread_info.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/thread_info.h
> index 7b5cc8d..a030be7 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/thread_info.h
> +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/thread_info.h
> @@ -59,7 +59,9 @@ struct thread_info {
> __u32 syscall; /* syscall number */
> __u8 used_cp[16]; /* thread used copro */
> unsigned long tp_value;
> +#ifdef CONFIG_CRUNCH
> struct crunch_state crunchstate;
> +#endif
> union fp_state fpstate __attribute__((aligned(8)));
> union vfp_state vfpstate;
> #ifdef CONFIG_ARM_THUMBEE
Where is the arch/arm/kernel/asm-offsets.c hunk?
baruch
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