# Re: \[PATCH v3\] proc,fcntl: introduce F\_SET\_DESCRIPTION

- From: Pascal Bouchareine \<hidden\>
- Date: 2020-07-28 06:25:51 
- List: linux-api
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-api/2020/07/185379
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-fsdevel/2020/07/185191/t.md

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On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 6:39 PM Pascal Bouchareine [ref] wrote:
> > struct file is nicely aligned to 256 bytes on distro configs.
> > Will this break everything?
> >
> >         $ cat /sys/kernel/slab/filp/object_size
>
> Indeed on the config I'm using here this jumped to 264 bytes
>
> Would it be better to move this to the inode struct? I don't know the
> implications of this - any other option?

Well it doesn't actually make much sense to share that at that level

However the above 264 is building from 5.4 without f_sb_err, so I
think master already passed the 256 bytes too ?
```