Re: [RFC tip/locking/lockdep v5 15/17] lockdep: Reduce the size of lock_list

Peter Zijlstra
2018-02-23T11:38:51Z

On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 03:09:02PM +0800, Boqun Feng wrote:
> diff --git a/include/linux/lockdep.h b/include/linux/lockdep.h
> index a1f91f8680bd..3fce8dbf5091 100644
> --- a/include/linux/lockdep.h
> +++ b/include/linux/lockdep.h
> @@ -186,11 +186,11 @@ struct lock_list {
> struct list_head entry;
> struct lock_class *class;
> struct stack_trace trace;
> - int distance;
> + u16 distance;
> /* bitmap of different dependencies from head to this */
> - u16 dep;
> + u8 dep;
> /* used by BFS to record whether this is picked as a recursive read */
> - u16 is_rr;
> + bool is_rr;

Don't use bool, use u8 if you want a single byte. sizeof(_Bool) is part
of the architecture ABI and can be up to 4 bytes (well really anything,
but I've not seen it bigger than 4 bytes for any sane implementation).