Re: [PATCH 3/8] arch/x86: Remove sentinel elem from ctl_table arrays
Dave Hansen <[email protected]>
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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