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

[Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>]

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)) ?

Suprizingly it helps a bit. Still "size vmlinux" is worse than with
bitmasks.

But I agreed that the code looks simpler with bitfields, so perhaps
this patch is better.

Oleg.