linux-kernel - [PATCH] proc: make struct pid

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Message-ID: <20161029160810.GF1246@avx2>
Date:   Sat, 29 Oct 2016 19:08:10 +0300
From:   Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
To:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] proc: make struct pid_entry::len unsigned

"unsigned int" is better on x86_64 because it most of the time it
autoexpands to 64-bit value while "int" requires MOVSX instruction.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
---

 fs/proc/base.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/fs/proc/base.c
+++ b/fs/proc/base.c
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@
 
 struct pid_entry {
 	const char *name;
-	int len;
+	unsigned int len;
 	umode_t mode;
 	const struct inode_operations *iop;
 	const struct file_operations *fop;