[PATCH] tty: shrink the size of struct tty_struct by 40 bytes

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Fri Aug 25 2023 - 11:29:14 EST


It's been a long time since anyone has looked at what struct tty_struct
looks like in memory, turns out there was a ton of holes.

So move things around a bit, change one variable (closing) from being an
int to a bool (it is only being tested for 0/1), and we end up saving 40
bytes per structure overall on x86-64 systems.

Before this patch:
/* size: 696, cachelines: 11, members: 37 */
/* sum members: 665, holes: 8, sum holes: 31 */
/* forced alignments: 2, forced holes: 1, sum forced holes: 4 */
/* last cacheline: 56 bytes */

After this change:
/* size: 656, cachelines: 11, members: 37 */
/* sum members: 654, holes: 1, sum holes: 2 */
/* forced alignments: 2 */
/* last cacheline: 16 bytes */

Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/tty.h | 18 +++++++++---------
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/tty.h b/include/linux/tty.h
index e8d5d9997aca..f002d0f25db7 100644
--- a/include/linux/tty.h
+++ b/include/linux/tty.h
@@ -192,13 +192,14 @@ struct tty_operations;
*/
struct tty_struct {
struct kref kref;
+ int index;
struct device *dev;
struct tty_driver *driver;
+ struct tty_port *port;
const struct tty_operations *ops;
- int index;

- struct ld_semaphore ldisc_sem;
struct tty_ldisc *ldisc;
+ struct ld_semaphore ldisc_sem;

struct mutex atomic_write_lock;
struct mutex legacy_mutex;
@@ -209,6 +210,7 @@ struct tty_struct {
char name[64];
unsigned long flags;
int count;
+ unsigned int receive_room;
struct winsize winsize;

struct {
@@ -219,16 +221,16 @@ struct tty_struct {
} __aligned(sizeof(unsigned long)) flow;

struct {
- spinlock_t lock;
struct pid *pgrp;
struct pid *session;
+ spinlock_t lock;
unsigned char pktstatus;
bool packet;
unsigned long unused[0];
} __aligned(sizeof(unsigned long)) ctrl;

bool hw_stopped;
- unsigned int receive_room;
+ bool closing;
int flow_change;

struct tty_struct *link;
@@ -239,15 +241,13 @@ struct tty_struct {
void *disc_data;
void *driver_data;
spinlock_t files_lock;
+ int write_cnt;
+ unsigned char *write_buf;
+
struct list_head tty_files;

#define N_TTY_BUF_SIZE 4096
-
- int closing;
- unsigned char *write_buf;
- int write_cnt;
struct work_struct SAK_work;
- struct tty_port *port;
} __randomize_layout;

/* Each of a tty's open files has private_data pointing to tty_file_private */
--
2.42.0