module: remove 64 bit alignment padding from struct module with CONFIG_TRACE*
authorRichard Kennedy <richard@rsk.demon.co.uk>
Thu, 19 May 2011 22:55:25 +0000 (16:55 -0600)
committerRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Thu, 19 May 2011 07:25:25 +0000 (16:55 +0930)
Reorder struct module to remove 24 bytes of alignment padding on 64 bit
builds when the CONFIG_TRACE options are selected. This allows the
structure to fit into one fewer cache lines, and its size drops from 592
to 568 on x86_64.

Signed-off-by: Richard Kennedy <richard@rsk.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
include/linux/module.h

index 23996ad147e7a212159bfd7a01cdbf074f7be792..65cc6cc73ca80228decabd68089461dd48ccb90d 100644 (file)
@@ -368,34 +368,35 @@ struct module
        struct module_notes_attrs *notes_attrs;
 #endif
 
+       /* The command line arguments (may be mangled).  People like
+          keeping pointers to this stuff */
+       char *args;
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
        /* Per-cpu data. */
        void __percpu *percpu;
        unsigned int percpu_size;
 #endif
 
-       /* The command line arguments (may be mangled).  People like
-          keeping pointers to this stuff */
-       char *args;
 #ifdef CONFIG_TRACEPOINTS
-       struct tracepoint * const *tracepoints_ptrs;
        unsigned int num_tracepoints;
+       struct tracepoint * const *tracepoints_ptrs;
 #endif
 #ifdef HAVE_JUMP_LABEL
        struct jump_entry *jump_entries;
        unsigned int num_jump_entries;
 #endif
 #ifdef CONFIG_TRACING
-       const char **trace_bprintk_fmt_start;
        unsigned int num_trace_bprintk_fmt;
+       const char **trace_bprintk_fmt_start;
 #endif
 #ifdef CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING
        struct ftrace_event_call **trace_events;
        unsigned int num_trace_events;
 #endif
 #ifdef CONFIG_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
-       unsigned long *ftrace_callsites;
        unsigned int num_ftrace_callsites;
+       unsigned long *ftrace_callsites;
 #endif
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD