Re: [PATCH v3 -next 00/15] sysctl: move sysctls from vm_table into its own files
yukaixiong <[email protected]>
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On 2024/10/21 15:22, Joel Granados wrote: > On Thu, Oct 10, 2024 at 11:22:00PM +0800, Kaixiong Yu wrote: >> This patch series moves sysctls of vm_table in kernel/sysctl.c to >> places where they actually belong, and do some related code clean-ups. >> After this patch series, all sysctls in vm_table have been moved into its >> own files, meanwhile, delete vm_table. >> >> All the modifications of this patch series base on >> linux-next(tags/next-20241010). To test this patch series, the code was >> compiled with both the CONFIG_SYSCTL enabled and disabled on arm64 and >> x86_64 architectures. After this patch series is applied, all files >> under /proc/sys/vm can be read or written normally. >> >> Changes in v3: >> - change patch1~10, patch14 title suggested by Joel Granados >> - change sysctl_stat_interval to static type in patch1 >> - add acked-by from Paul Moore in patch7 >> - change dirtytime_expire_interval to static type in patch9 >> - add acked-by from Anna Schumaker in patch11 >> >> Changes in v2: >> - fix sysctl_max_map_count undeclared issue in mm/nommu.c for patch6 >> - update changelog for patch7/12, suggested by Kees/Paul >> - fix patch8, sorry for wrong changes and forget to built with NOMMU >> - add reviewed-by from Kees except patch8 since patch8 is wrong in v1 >> - add reviewed-by from Jan Kara, Christian Brauner in patch12 >> >> Kaixiong Yu (15): >> mm: vmstat: move sysctls to mm/vmstat.c >> mm: filemap: move sysctl to mm/filemap.c >> mm: swap: move sysctl to mm/swap.c >> mm: vmscan: move vmscan sysctls to mm/vmscan.c >> mm: util: move sysctls to mm/util.c >> mm: mmap: move sysctl to mm/mmap.c >> security: min_addr: move sysctl to security/min_addr.c >> mm: nommu: move sysctl to mm/nommu.c >> fs: fs-writeback: move sysctl to fs/fs-writeback.c >> fs: drop_caches: move sysctl to fs/drop_caches.c >> sunrpc: use vfs_pressure_ratio() helper >> fs: dcache: move the sysctl to fs/dcache.c >> x86: vdso: move the sysctl to arch/x86/entry/vdso/vdso32-setup.c >> sh: vdso: move the sysctl to arch/sh/kernel/vsyscall/vsyscall.c >> sysctl: remove unneeded include >> >> arch/sh/kernel/vsyscall/vsyscall.c | 14 ++ >> arch/x86/entry/vdso/vdso32-setup.c | 16 ++- >> fs/dcache.c | 21 ++- >> fs/drop_caches.c | 23 ++- >> fs/fs-writeback.c | 30 ++-- >> include/linux/dcache.h | 7 +- >> include/linux/mm.h | 23 --- >> include/linux/mman.h | 2 - >> include/linux/swap.h | 9 -- >> include/linux/vmstat.h | 11 -- >> include/linux/writeback.h | 4 - >> kernel/sysctl.c | 221 ----------------------------- >> mm/filemap.c | 18 ++- >> mm/internal.h | 10 ++ >> mm/mmap.c | 54 +++++++ >> mm/nommu.c | 15 +- >> mm/swap.c | 16 ++- >> mm/swap.h | 1 + >> mm/util.c | 67 +++++++-- >> mm/vmscan.c | 23 +++ >> mm/vmstat.c | 44 +++++- >> net/sunrpc/auth.c | 2 +- >> security/min_addr.c | 11 ++ >> 23 files changed, 330 insertions(+), 312 deletions(-) >> >> -- >> 2.34.1 >> > General comment for the patchset in general. I would consider making the > new sysctl tables const. There is an effort for doing this and it has > already lanted in linux-next. So if you base your patch from a recent > next release, then it should just work. If you *do* decide to add a > const qualifier, then note that you will create a dependency with the > sysctl patchset currently in next and that will have to go in before. > > Best > Sorry, I don't understand what is the meaning of "create a dependency with the sysctl patchset". Do you just want me to change all "static struct ctl_table" type table into "static const struct ctl_table" type in my patchset?