The changes queued up for v6.5-rc1 for sysctl are in line with
prior efforts to stop usage of deprecated routines which incur
recursion and also make it hard to remove the empty array element
in each sysctl array declaration. The most difficult user to modify
was parport which required a bit of re-thinking of how to declare shared
sysctls there, Joel Granados has stepped up to the plate to do most of
this work and eventual removal of register_sysctl_table(). That work
ended up saving us about 1465 bytes according to bloat-o-meter. Since
we gained a few bloat-o-meter karma points I moved two rather small
sysctl arrays from kernel/sysctl.c leaving us only two more sysctl
arrays to move left.
Most changes have been tested on linux-next for about a month. The last
straggler patches are a minor parport fix, changes to the sysctl
kernel selftest so to verify correctness and prevent regressions for
the future change he made to provide an alternative solution for the
special sysctl mount point target which was using the now deprecated
sysctl child element.
This is all prep work to now finally be able to remove the empty
array element in all sysctl declarations / registrations which is
expected to save us a bit of bytes all over the kernel. That work
will be tested early after v6.5-rc1 is out.
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Merge tag 'v6.5-rc1-sysctl-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux
Pull sysctl updates from Luis Chamberlain:
"The changes for sysctl are in line with prior efforts to stop usage of
deprecated routines which incur recursion and also make it hard to
remove the empty array element in each sysctl array declaration.
The most difficult user to modify was parport which required a bit of
re-thinking of how to declare shared sysctls there, Joel Granados has
stepped up to the plate to do most of this work and eventual removal
of register_sysctl_table(). That work ended up saving us about 1465
bytes according to bloat-o-meter. Since we gained a few bloat-o-meter
karma points I moved two rather small sysctl arrays from
kernel/sysctl.c leaving us only two more sysctl arrays to move left.
Most changes have been tested on linux-next for about a month. The
last straggler patches are a minor parport fix, changes to the sysctl
kernel selftest so to verify correctness and prevent regressions for
the future change he made to provide an alternative solution for the
special sysctl mount point target which was using the now deprecated
sysctl child element.
This is all prep work to now finally be able to remove the empty array
element in all sysctl declarations / registrations which is expected
to save us a bit of bytes all over the kernel. That work will be
tested early after v6.5-rc1 is out"
* tag 'v6.5-rc1-sysctl-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux:
sysctl: replace child with an enumeration
sysctl: Remove debugging dump_stack
test_sysclt: Test for registering a mount point
test_sysctl: Add an option to prevent test skip
test_sysctl: Add an unregister sysctl test
test_sysctl: Group node sysctl test under one func
test_sysctl: Fix test metadata getters
parport: plug a sysctl register leak
sysctl: move security keys sysctl registration to its own file
sysctl: move umh sysctl registration to its own file
signal: move show_unhandled_signals sysctl to its own file
sysctl: remove empty dev table
sysctl: Remove register_sysctl_table
sysctl: Refactor base paths registrations
sysctl: stop exporting register_sysctl_table
parport: Removed sysctl related defines
parport: Remove register_sysctl_table from parport_default_proc_register
parport: Remove register_sysctl_table from parport_device_proc_register
parport: Remove register_sysctl_table from parport_proc_register
parport: Move magic number "15" to a define
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