[merged] mm-store-compound_dtor-compound_order-as-bytes.patch removed from -mm tree

[merged] mm-store-compound_dtor-compound_order-as-bytes.patch removed from -mm tree

[akpm]

The patch titled
     Subject: mm: store compound_dtor / compound_order as bytes
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     mm-store-compound_dtor-compound_order-as-bytes.patch

This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree

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From: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com>
Subject: mm: store compound_dtor / compound_order as bytes

Neither of these values get even close to 256; compound_dtor is currently
at a maximum of 3, and compound_order can't be over 64.  No machine has
inefficient access to bytes since EV5, and while those are still
supported, we don't optimise for them any more.  This does not shrink
struct page, but it removes an ifdef and frees up 2-6 bytes for future
use.

diff of pahole output:

 		struct callback_head callback_head;      /*    32    16 */
 		struct {
 			long unsigned int compound_head; /*    32     8 */
-			unsigned int compound_dtor;      /*    40     4 */
-			unsigned int compound_order;     /*    44     4 */
+			unsigned char compound_dtor;     /*    40     1 */
+			unsigned char compound_order;    /*    41     1 */
 		};                                       /*    32    16 */
 	};                                               /*    32    16 */
 	union {

[mawilcox@microsoft.com: add comment]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171221000144.GB2980@bombadil.infradead.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171220155552.15884-7-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 include/linux/mm_types.h |   16 +++-------------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff -puN include/linux/mm_types.h~mm-store-compound_dtor-compound_order-as-bytes include/linux/mm_types.h
--- a/include/linux/mm_types.h~mm-store-compound_dtor-compound_order-as-bytes
+++ a/include/linux/mm_types.h
@@ -136,19 +136,9 @@ struct page {
 			unsigned long compound_head; /* If bit zero is set */
 
 			/* First tail page only */
-#ifdef CONFIG_64BIT
-			/*
-			 * On 64 bit system we have enough space in struct page
-			 * to encode compound_dtor and compound_order with
-			 * unsigned int. It can help compiler generate better or
-			 * smaller code on some archtectures.
-			 */
-			unsigned int compound_dtor;
-			unsigned int compound_order;
-#else
-			unsigned short int compound_dtor;
-			unsigned short int compound_order;
-#endif
+			unsigned char compound_dtor;
+			unsigned char compound_order;
+			/* two/six bytes available here */
 		};
 
 #if defined(CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE) && USE_SPLIT_PMD_PTLOCKS
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from mawilcox@microsoft.com are