proc: make struct proc_dir_entry::namelen unsigned int
1. namelen is declared "unsigned short" which hints for "maybe space savings".
Indeed in 2.4 struct proc_dir_entry looked like:
struct proc_dir_entry {
unsigned short low_ino;
unsigned short namelen;
Now, low_ino is "unsigned int", all savings were gone for a long time.
"struct proc_dir_entry" is not that countless to worry about it's size,
anyway.
2. converting from unsigned short to int/unsigned int can only create
problems, we better play it safe.
Space is not really conserved, because of natural alignment for the next
field. sizeof(struct proc_dir_entry) remains the same.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/fs/proc/generic.c b/fs/proc/generic.c
index 01e07f2..f128133 100644
--- a/fs/proc/generic.c
+++ b/fs/proc/generic.c
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
DEFINE_SPINLOCK(proc_subdir_lock);
-static int proc_match(int len, const char *name, struct proc_dir_entry *de)
+static int proc_match(unsigned int len, const char *name, struct proc_dir_entry *de)
{
if (de->namelen != len)
return 0;
@@ -303,7 +303,7 @@
{
const char *cp = name, *next;
struct proc_dir_entry *de;
- int len;
+ unsigned int len;
de = *ret;
if (!de)
@@ -602,7 +602,7 @@
{
struct proc_dir_entry *ent = NULL;
const char *fn = name;
- int len;
+ unsigned int len;
/* make sure name is valid */
if (!name || !strlen(name)) goto out;
@@ -786,7 +786,7 @@
struct proc_dir_entry **p;
struct proc_dir_entry *de = NULL;
const char *fn = name;
- int len;
+ unsigned int len;
spin_lock(&proc_subdir_lock);
if (__xlate_proc_name(name, &parent, &fn) != 0) {
diff --git a/include/linux/proc_fs.h b/include/linux/proc_fs.h
index 379eaed..838c114 100644
--- a/include/linux/proc_fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/proc_fs.h
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@
struct proc_dir_entry {
unsigned int low_ino;
- unsigned short namelen;
+ unsigned int namelen;
const char *name;
mode_t mode;
nlink_t nlink;