On Sat, Feb 06, 2021 at 06:18:32PM +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> 32-bit accesses are shorter than 64-bit accesses on x86_64.
> Nothing uses 64-bitness of struct task_struct::state.
>
> Propagate 32-bitness to other variables and functions.
You're saving a handful of bytes, why?
> --- a/include/linux/sched.h
> +++ b/include/linux/sched.h
> @@ -655,7 +655,7 @@ struct task_struct {
> struct thread_info thread_info;
> #endif
> /* -1 unrunnable, 0 runnable, >0 stopped: */
> - volatile long state;
> + volatile int state;
A much larger, but probably more useful cleanup would be to get rid of
that volatile.
