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authorDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>2011-07-27 21:47:03 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-07-27 12:50:45 -0700
commit09570f914914d2beb0db29c5a9c7344934f2fa8c (patch)
treea93900db5e607887aca3ef2cecc2426abe007d87 /kernel/dma.c
parent5fd00b031530cc476240f654c078c930f1dcd6ea (diff)
proc: make struct proc_dir_entry::name a terminal array rather than a pointer
Since __proc_create() appends the name it is given to the end of the PDE structure that it allocates, there isn't a need to store a name pointer. Instead we can just replace the name pointer with a terminal char array of _unspecified_ length. The compiler will simply append the string to statically defined variables of PDE type overlapping any hole at the end of the structure and, unlike specifying an explicitly _zero_ length array, won't give a warning if you try to statically initialise it with a string of more than zero length. Also, whilst we're at it: (1) Move namelen to end just prior to name and reduce it to a single byte (name shouldn't be longer than NAME_MAX). (2) Move pde_unload_lock two places further on so that if it's four bytes in size on a 64-bit machine, it won't cause an unused hole in the PDE struct. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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