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

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 02:07:32PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Apr 2018, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> Sure, if you do:
> 
> > > > > > > +       bool                            tick_stopped    : 1;
> 
> which is stupidly allowed by the standard....

The code-gen changes are because of the layout change, not because of
the type change.