Re: [PATCH 5/5] lockdep: pack subclass/trylock/read/check into asingle argument

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Tue Jan 21 2014 - 13:53:14 EST


On Tue, 21 Jan 2014 19:43:10 +0100
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 01/21, Dave Jones wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 03:10:22PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > >
> > > I tried the below but filed to see my vmlinux shrink, maybe I'm just not
> > > building the right kernel, or otherwise GCC is stupid.
> > >
> > > -extern void lock_acquire(struct lockdep_map *lock, unsigned int subclass,
> > > - int trylock, int read, int check,
> > > - struct lockdep_map *nest_lock, unsigned long ip);
> > > +struct lockdep_acquire_flags {
> > > + unsigned long subclass : 3;
> > > + unsigned long trylock : 1;
> > > + unsigned long read : 2;
> > > + unsigned long check : 1;
> > > +};
> >
> > As it's only 7 bits here, could we pack them into a char ?
>
> Do you mean __attribute__((packed)) ?
>

I think Dave means:

unsigned char subclass : 3;
unsigned char trylock : 1;
unsigned char read : 2;
unsigned char check : 1;

-- Steve
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