[PATCH] Shrink thread_info a bit

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Mon Oct 24 09:08:31 EDT 2011


On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 03:06:19PM +0200, Baruch Siach wrote:
> 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?

Have you looked there?



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