[PATCH] Decrease filp size by 8

[Kurt Garloff]

Hi Andrew,

attached patch decreases the size of struct file by 8 bytes on 64 bit
arches by avoiding unecessary padding.

Regards,
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Kurt Garloff  <garloff@xxxxxxx>                            Cologne, DE 
SUSE LINUX AG / Novell, Nuernberg, DE               Director SUSE Labs
diff -uNrp linux-2.6.5/include/linux/fs.h linux-2.6.5.smallstruct/include/linux/fs.h
--- linux-2.6.5/include/linux/fs.h	2004-05-22 13:11:08.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.5.smallstruct/include/linux/fs.h	2004-05-22 14:32:55.000000000 +0200
@@ -513,8 +513,8 @@ struct fown_struct {
 	rwlock_t lock;          /* protects pid, uid, euid fields */
 	int pid;		/* pid or -pgrp where SIGIO should be sent */
 	uid_t uid, euid;	/* uid/euid of process setting the owner */
-	int signum;		/* posix.1b rt signal to be delivered on IO */
 	void *security;
+	int signum;		/* posix.1b rt signal to be delivered on IO */
 };
 
 /*
@@ -542,10 +542,10 @@ struct file {
 	atomic_t		f_count;
 	unsigned int 		f_flags;
 	mode_t			f_mode;
+	int			f_error;
 	loff_t			f_pos;
 	struct fown_struct	f_owner;
 	unsigned int		f_uid, f_gid;
-	int			f_error;
 	struct file_ra_state	f_ra;
 
 	unsigned long		f_version;

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