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With struct sched_entity before the other sched entities, its alignment
won't induce a struct hole. This saves 64 bytes in defconfig task_struct:
Before:
...
unsigned int rt_priority; /* 120 4 */
/* XXX 4 bytes hole, try to pack */
/* --- cacheline 2 boundary (128 bytes) --- */
const struct sched_class * sched_class; /* 128 8 */
/* XXX 56 bytes hole, try to pack */
/* --- cacheline 3 boundary (192 bytes) --- */
struct sched_entity se __attribute__((__aligned__(64))); /* 192 448 */
/* --- cacheline 10 boundary (640 bytes) --- */
struct sched_rt_entity rt; /* 640 48 */
struct sched_dl_entity dl __attribute__((__aligned__(8))); /* 688 224 */
/* --- cacheline 14 boundary (896 bytes) was 16 bytes ago --- */
After:
...
unsigned int rt_priority; /* 120 4 */
/* XXX 4 bytes hole, try to pack */
/* --- cacheline 2 boundary (128 bytes) --- */
struct sched_entity se __attribute__((__aligned__(64))); /* 128 448 */
/* --- cacheline 9 boundary (576 bytes) --- */
struct sched_rt_entity rt; /* 576 48 */
struct sched_dl_entity dl __attribute__((__aligned__(8))); /* 624 224 */
/* --- cacheline 13 boundary (832 bytes) was 16 bytes ago --- */
Summary diff:
- /* size: 7040, cachelines: 110, members: 188 */
+ /* size: 6976, cachelines: 109, members: 188 */
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210924025450.4138503-1-keescook@chromium.org
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.