kernel-ark/include/linux/cdev.h
Theodore Ts'o 9fd5746fd3 fs: Remove i_cindex from struct inode
The only user of the i_cindex element in the inode structure is used
is by the firewire drivers.  As part of an attempt to slim down the
inode structure to save memory --- since a typical Linux system will
have hundreds of thousands if not millions of inodes cached, a
reduction in the size inode has high leverage.

The firewire driver does not need i_cindex in any fast path, so it's
simple enough to calculate when it is needed, instead of wasting space
in the inode structure.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: krh@redhat.com
Cc: stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-06-11 21:36:09 -04:00

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#ifndef _LINUX_CDEV_H
#define _LINUX_CDEV_H
#include <linux/kobject.h>
#include <linux/kdev_t.h>
#include <linux/list.h>
struct file_operations;
struct inode;
struct module;
struct cdev {
struct kobject kobj;
struct module *owner;
const struct file_operations *ops;
struct list_head list;
dev_t dev;
unsigned int count;
};
void cdev_init(struct cdev *, const struct file_operations *);
struct cdev *cdev_alloc(void);
void cdev_put(struct cdev *p);
int cdev_add(struct cdev *, dev_t, unsigned);
void cdev_del(struct cdev *);
int cdev_index(struct inode *inode);
void cd_forget(struct inode *);
extern struct backing_dev_info directly_mappable_cdev_bdi;
#endif