pidns: make pid->level and pid_ns->level unsigned
These values represent the nesting level of a namespace and pids living in it,
and it's always non-negative.
Turning this from int to unsigned int saves some space in pid.c (11 bytes on
x86 and 64 on ia64) by letting the compiler optimize the pid_nr_ns a bit.
E.g. on ia64 this removes the sign extension calls, which compiler adds to
optimize access to pid->nubers[ns->level].
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/kernel/pid_namespace.c b/kernel/pid_namespace.c
index 5ca37fa..98702b4 100644
--- a/kernel/pid_namespace.c
+++ b/kernel/pid_namespace.c
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@
return NULL;
}
-static struct pid_namespace *create_pid_namespace(int level)
+static struct pid_namespace *create_pid_namespace(unsigned int level)
{
struct pid_namespace *ns;
int i;