Re: [PATCH 3/8] arch/x86: Remove sentinel elem from ctl_table arrays

Dave Hansen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.ports.ia64,gmane.linux.file-systems,gmane.linux.kernel,gmane.linux.ports.arm.kernel,gmane.linux.ports.riscv,gmane.linux.ports.ppc64.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 9/6/23 03:03, Joel Granados via B4 Relay wrote:
> This commit comes at the tail end of a greater effort to remove the
> empty elements at the end of the ctl_table arrays (sentinels) which
> will reduce the overall build time size of the kernel and run time
> memory bloat by ~64 bytes per sentinel (further information Link :
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/ZO5Yx5JFogGi%[email protected]/)
> 
> Remove sentinel element from sld_sysctl and itmt_kern_table.

There's a *LOT* of content to read for a reviewer to figure out what's
going on here between all the links.  I would have appreciated one more
sentence here, maybe:

	This is now safe because the sysctl registration code
	(register_sysctl()) implicitly uses ARRAY_SIZE() in addition
	to checking for a sentinel.

That needs to be more prominent _somewhere_.  Maybe here, or maybe in
the cover letter, but _somewhere_.

That said, feel free to add this to the two x86 patches:

Acked-by: Dave Hansen <[email protected]> # for x86
lmpx.com only provides a reader for public news (NNTP) servers. It is not affiliated with the servers or forums shown here and is not responsible for the content of articles, which is written by their respective authors.