Commit 97dc32cd authored by William Cohen's avatar William Cohen Committed by Linus Torvalds
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reduce size of task_struct on 64-bit machines 

This past week I was playing around with that pahole tool
(http://oops.ghostprotocols.net:81/acme/dwarves/

) and looking at the size
of various struct in the kernel.  I was surprised by the size of the
task_struct on x86_64, approaching 4K.  I looked through the fields in
task_struct and found that a number of them were declared as "unsigned
long" rather than "unsigned int" despite them appearing okay as 32-bit
sized fields.  On x86_64 "unsigned long" ends up being 8 bytes in size and
forces 8 byte alignment.  Is there a reason there a reason they are
"unsigned long"?

The patch below drops the size of the struct from 3808 bytes (60 64-byte
cachelines) to 3760 bytes (59 64-byte cachelines).  A couple other fields
in the task struct take a signficant amount of space:

struct thread_struct       thread;               688
struct held_lock           held_locks[30];       1680

CONFIG_LOCKDEP is turned on in the .config

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix printk warnings]
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 4d7bf11d

fs/proc/array.c

+2 −2
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@@ -410,9 +410,9 @@ static int do_task_stat(struct task_struct *task, char * buffer, int whole) 
	/* convert nsec -> ticks */

	start_time = nsec_to_clock_t(start_time);



	res = sprintf(buffer,"%d (%s) %c %d %d %d %d %d %lu %lu \

	res = sprintf(buffer,"%d (%s) %c %d %d %d %d %d %u %lu \

%lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %ld %ld %ld %ld %d 0 %llu %lu %ld %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu \

%lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %d %d %lu %lu %llu\n",

%lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %d %d %u %u %llu\n",

		task->pid,

		tcomm,

		state,

include/linux/sched.h

+6 −6
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@@ -801,8 +801,8 @@ struct task_struct { 
	volatile long state;	/* -1 unrunnable, 0 runnable, >0 stopped */

	struct thread_info *thread_info;

	atomic_t usage;

	unsigned long flags;	/* per process flags, defined below */

	unsigned long ptrace;

	unsigned int flags;	/* per process flags, defined below */

	unsigned int ptrace;



	int lock_depth;		/* BKL lock depth */
@@ -825,7 +825,7 @@ struct task_struct { 
	unsigned long long sched_time; /* sched_clock time spent running */

	enum sleep_type sleep_type;



	unsigned long policy;

	unsigned int policy;

	cpumask_t cpus_allowed;

	unsigned int time_slice, first_time_slice;
@@ -845,11 +845,11 @@ struct task_struct { 


/* task state */

	struct linux_binfmt *binfmt;

	long exit_state;

	int exit_state;

	int exit_code, exit_signal;

	int pdeath_signal;  /*  The signal sent when the parent dies  */

	/* ??? */

	unsigned long personality;

	unsigned int personality;

	unsigned did_exec:1;

	pid_t pid;

	pid_t tgid;
@@ -881,7 +881,7 @@ struct task_struct { 
	int __user *set_child_tid;		/* CLONE_CHILD_SETTID */

	int __user *clear_child_tid;		/* CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID */



	unsigned long rt_priority;

	unsigned int rt_priority;

	cputime_t utime, stime;

	unsigned long nvcsw, nivcsw; /* context switch counts */

	struct timespec start_time;

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