[PATCH] maple_tree: shrink struct maple_tree from 24 to 16 bytes on LP64

Liam R. Howlett Liam.Howlett at Oracle.com
Tue Aug 22 07:09:46 PDT 2023


* Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik at gmail.com> [230821 18:52]:
> by plugging a padding hole.
> 
> [sounds like an obvious thing to do, am I missing something?]

Thanks for the patch.  There is no reason for the current ordering.

I've tested both 32 and 64 bit userspace testing to double check
everything still works.

> 
> Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik at gmail.com>

Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett at oracle.com>

> ---
>  include/linux/maple_tree.h | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/maple_tree.h b/include/linux/maple_tree.h
> index 295548cca8b3..5bdd3ce34cb9 100644
> --- a/include/linux/maple_tree.h
> +++ b/include/linux/maple_tree.h
> @@ -212,8 +212,8 @@ struct maple_tree {
>  		spinlock_t	ma_lock;
>  		lockdep_map_p	ma_external_lock;
>  	};
> -	void __rcu      *ma_root;
>  	unsigned int	ma_flags;
> +	void __rcu      *ma_root;
>  };
>  
>  /**
> -- 
> 2.39.2
> 
> 



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