linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] pinctrl: Remove hole in pinctrl_gpio

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Date:   Thu, 5 Nov 2020 14:57:44 +0100
From:   Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
To:     Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@...der.be>
Cc:     Heiko Stuebner <heiko@...ech.de>,
        "open list:GPIO SUBSYSTEM" <linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org>,
        "open list:ARM/Rockchip SoC..." <linux-rockchip@...ts.infradead.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pinctrl: Remove hole in pinctrl_gpio_range

On Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 3:51 PM Geert Uytterhoeven
<geert+renesas@...der.be> wrote:

> On 64-bit platforms, pointer size and alignment are 64-bit, hence two
> 4-byte holes are present before the pins and gc members of the
> pinctrl_gpio_range structure.  Get rid of these holes by moving the
> pins pointer.
>
> This reduces kernel size of an arm64 Rockchip kernel by ca. 512 bytes.
>
> Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@...der.be>
> ---
> Compile-tested only (arm/multi_v7_defconfig and arm64/defconfig).

Patch applied.

Do you think it'd be worth it to add a check to checkpatch to suggest
to move pointers toward the end of any struct?

Yours,
Linus Walleij