Re: [PATCH] time: tick-sched: use bool for tick_stopped

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 06:07:17PM +0800, yuankuiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > > > @@ -48,8 +48,8 @@ struct tick_sched {
> > > > >         unsigned long                   check_clocks;
> > > > >         enum tick_nohz_mode             nohz_mode;
> > > > >
> > > > > +       bool                            tick_stopped    : 1;
> > > > >         unsigned int                    inidle          : 1;
> > > > > -       unsigned int                    tick_stopped    : 1;
> > > > >         unsigned int                    idle_active     : 1;
> > > > >         unsigned int                    do_timer_last   : 1;
> > > > >         unsigned int                    got_idle_tick   : 1;
> > > >
> > > > I don't think this is a good idea at all.
> > > >
> > > > Please see https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/11/21/384 for example.
> > > [ZJ] Thanks for this sharing. Looks like, this patch fall into the
> > > case of
> > > "Maybe".
> > 
> > This patch falls into the case 'pointless' because it adds extra storage
> [ZJ] 1 bit vs 1 bit. no more.

Since its a different type, the bitfields will not be merged. Also I'm
surprised a bitfield with base-type _Bool is even allowed.

> > for no benefit at all.
> [ZJ] tick_stopped is returned by the tick_nohz_tick_stopped() which is bool.
> The benefit is no any potiential type conversion could be minded.

Do you have any actual evidence for that? Is there a compiler stupid
enough to generate code to convert a bool to a 1bit value?