From 726447d803802cd0be8f62d17c4a34421781b938 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Sandeen Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 10:24:17 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] ext4: naturally align struct ext4_allocation_request As Ted noted, the ext4_allocation_request isn't well aligned. Looking at it with pahole we're wasting space on 64-bit arches: struct ext4_allocation_request { struct inode * inode; /* 0 8 */ ext4_lblk_t logical; /* 8 4 */ /* XXX 4 bytes hole, try to pack */ ext4_fsblk_t goal; /* 16 8 */ ext4_lblk_t lleft; /* 24 4 */ /* XXX 4 bytes hole, try to pack */ ext4_fsblk_t pleft; /* 32 8 */ ext4_lblk_t lright; /* 40 4 */ /* XXX 4 bytes hole, try to pack */ ext4_fsblk_t pright; /* 48 8 */ unsigned int len; /* 56 4 */ unsigned int flags; /* 60 4 */ /* --- cacheline 1 boundary (64 bytes) --- */ /* size: 64, cachelines: 1, members: 9 */ /* sum members: 52, holes: 3, sum holes: 12 */ }; Grouping 32-bit members together closes these holes and shrinks the structure by 12 bytes. which is important since ext4 can get on the hairy edge of stack overruns. Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" --- fs/ext4/ext4.h | 14 +++++++------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/ext4.h b/fs/ext4/ext4.h index 0ddf7e55abe1..9714db393efe 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/ext4.h +++ b/fs/ext4/ext4.h @@ -93,20 +93,20 @@ typedef unsigned int ext4_group_t; struct ext4_allocation_request { /* target inode for block we're allocating */ struct inode *inode; + /* how many blocks we want to allocate */ + unsigned int len; /* logical block in target inode */ ext4_lblk_t logical; - /* phys. target (a hint) */ - ext4_fsblk_t goal; /* the closest logical allocated block to the left */ ext4_lblk_t lleft; - /* phys. block for ^^^ */ - ext4_fsblk_t pleft; /* the closest logical allocated block to the right */ ext4_lblk_t lright; - /* phys. block for ^^^ */ + /* phys. target (a hint) */ + ext4_fsblk_t goal; + /* phys. block for the closest logical allocated block to the left */ + ext4_fsblk_t pleft; + /* phys. block for the closest logical allocated block to the right */ ext4_fsblk_t pright; - /* how many blocks we want to allocate */ - unsigned int len; /* flags. see above EXT4_MB_HINT_* */ unsigned int flags; }; -- 2.39.5