mm/vmalloc: modify struct vmap_area to reduce its size
authorPengfei Li <lpf.vector@gmail.com>
Mon, 23 Sep 2019 22:36:39 +0000 (15:36 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 24 Sep 2019 22:54:10 +0000 (15:54 -0700)
commit688fcbfc06e4fdfbb7e1d5a942a1460fe6379d2d
tree59aed6b336daeb448f621b901a180f80841b58a7
parentdd3b8353bae79395b12a178de057b183ff0122eb
mm/vmalloc: modify struct vmap_area to reduce its size

Objective
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The current implementation of struct vmap_area wasted space.

After applying this commit, sizeof(struct vmap_area) has been
reduced from 11 words to 8 words.

Description
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1) Pack "subtree_max_size", "vm" and "purge_list".  This is no problem
   because

A) "subtree_max_size" is only used when vmap_area is in "free" tree

B) "vm" is only used when vmap_area is in "busy" tree

C) "purge_list" is only used when vmap_area is in vmap_purge_list

2) Eliminate "flags".

;Since only one flag VM_VM_AREA is being used, and the same thing can be
done by judging whether "vm" is NULL, then the "flags" can be eliminated.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190716152656.12255-3-lpf.vector@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Pengfei Li <lpf.vector@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>
Cc: Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Oleksiy Avramchenko <oleksiy.avramchenko@sonymobile.com>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/vmalloc.h
mm/vmalloc.c