The following patches reduce the size of the VFS inode structure by 28 bytes
on a UP x86.  (It would be more on an x86_64 system).  This is a 10% reduction
in the inode size on a UP kernel that is configured in a production mode
(i.e., with no spinlock or other debugging functions enabled; if you want to
save memory taken up by in-core inodes, the first thing you should do is
disable the debugging options; they are responsible for a huge amount of bloat
in the VFS inode structure).

This patch:

The filesystem or device-specific pointer in the inode is inside a union,
which is pretty pointless given that all 30+ users of this field have been
using the void pointer.  Get rid of the union and rename it to i_private, with
a comment to explain who is allowed to use the void pointer.  This is just a
cleanup, but it allows us to reuse the union 'u' for something something where
the union will actually be used.
Signed-off-by: N"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>

When the debug buffer has filled up, break from the loop and return the
correct number of bytes that have been written.
Signed-off-by: NDavid Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

> I think you must have an old version of the base kernel as well?
> i_private no longer exists in struct inode, so you'll have to use
> something else,

I have that patch in my stack but didn't send it; for some reason I
thought it was already changed in your git tree.
Signed-off-by: NDavid Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 10:47:14AM +0100, Steven Whitehouse wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've applied all the patches you sent, but they don't build:

Argh, sorry about that... when I fixed these a long time ago they somehow
never got included in the quilt patches.  I mistakenly assumed the quilt
patches matched the source I had in front of me.
Signed-off-by: NDavid Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

Display more information from debugfs, particularly locks waiting for
a master lookup or operations waiting for a remote reply.
Signed-off-by: NDavid Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

This patch removes support for range locking from the DLM
Signed-off-by: NDavid Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

Signed-off-by: NDavid Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NSteve Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

This is the core of the distributed lock manager which is required
to use GFS2 as a cluster filesystem. It is also used by CLVM and
can be used as a standalone lock manager independantly of either
of these two projects.

It implements VAX-style locking modes.
Signed-off-by: NDavid Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NSteve Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>