[PATCH] reuse xxx_fifo_fops for xxx_pipe_fops

From: Denys Vlasenko
Date: Fri Mar 28 2008 - 11:11:49 EST


Hi Al,

I noticed that read/write/rdwr_pipe_fops are (1) const and
(2) exactly identical to xxx_fifo_fops, which are also const.

Attached patch #defines xxx_pipe_fops as aliases to xxx_fifo_fops.
Size difference:

# size linux-2.6.25-rc6*/*/pipe.o
text data bss dec hex filename
6534 144 0 6678 1a16 linux-2.6.25-rc6/fs/pipe.o
5862 144 0 6006 1776 linux-2.6.25-rc6-pt/fs/pipe.o

--
vda
--- linux-2.6.25-rc6.src/fs/pipe.c Sat Mar 22 23:00:34 2008
+++ linux-2.6.25-rc6.pipe/fs/pipe.c Fri Mar 28 15:52:00 2008
@@ -814,42 +814,9 @@
.fasync = pipe_rdwr_fasync,
};

-static const struct file_operations read_pipe_fops = {
- .llseek = no_llseek,
- .read = do_sync_read,
- .aio_read = pipe_read,
- .write = bad_pipe_w,
- .poll = pipe_poll,
- .unlocked_ioctl = pipe_ioctl,
- .open = pipe_read_open,
- .release = pipe_read_release,
- .fasync = pipe_read_fasync,
-};
-
-static const struct file_operations write_pipe_fops = {
- .llseek = no_llseek,
- .read = bad_pipe_r,
- .write = do_sync_write,
- .aio_write = pipe_write,
- .poll = pipe_poll,
- .unlocked_ioctl = pipe_ioctl,
- .open = pipe_write_open,
- .release = pipe_write_release,
- .fasync = pipe_write_fasync,
-};
-
-static const struct file_operations rdwr_pipe_fops = {
- .llseek = no_llseek,
- .read = do_sync_read,
- .aio_read = pipe_read,
- .write = do_sync_write,
- .aio_write = pipe_write,
- .poll = pipe_poll,
- .unlocked_ioctl = pipe_ioctl,
- .open = pipe_rdwr_open,
- .release = pipe_rdwr_release,
- .fasync = pipe_rdwr_fasync,
-};
+#define read_pipe_fops read_fifo_fops
+#define write_pipe_fops write_fifo_fops
+#define rdwr_pipe_fops rdwr_fifo_fops

struct pipe_inode_info * alloc_pipe_info(struct inode *inode)
{