linux-kernel - Re: [RFC 05/12] lockdep: Implement crossrelease feature

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Date:	Fri, 1 Jul 2016 08:28:12 +0900
From:	Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@....com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:	mingo@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, npiggin@...e.de,
	walken@...gle.com, ak@...e.de, tglx@...elltoy.tec.linutronix.de
Subject: Re: [RFC 05/12] lockdep: Implement crossrelease feature

On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 03:03:57PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 01:55:20PM +0900, Byungchul Park wrote:
> > +struct cross_lock {
> > +	unsigned int		gen_id;
> 
> 4 byte hole
> 
> > +	struct list_head	xlock_entry;
> > +
> > +	/*
> > +	 * Seperated hlock instance. This will be used when
> > +	 * building a dependency chain for a crosslock, say,
> > +	 * commit.
> > +	 */
> > +	struct held_lock	hlock;
> > +
> > +	int			ref; /* reference count */
> 
> 4 byte hole
> 
> > +};
> 
> A trivial re-arrangement would shrink this structure by 8 bytes.

Ok. Thank you.

> 
> After which its still at least 64 bytes.

I will try to reduce the size as much as possible. However I think it's
not serious problem beacuse this is just a debug feature.

Thanks,
Byungchul