user/sven/linux.git/include/linux/sysctl.h, branch v6.5.11

sysctl: replace child with an enumeration

2023-06-18T09:32:54Z

This is part of the effort to remove the empty element at the end of ctl_table structs. "child" was a deprecated elem in this struct and was being used to differentiate between two types of ctl_tables: "normal" and "permanently emtpy". What changed?: * Replace "child" with an enumeration that will have two values: the default (0) and the permanently empty (1). The latter is left at zero so when struct ctl_table is created with kzalloc or in a local context, it will have the zero value by default. We document the new enum with kdoc. * Remove the "empty child" check from sysctl_check_table * Remove count_subheaders function as there is no longer a need to calculate how many headers there are for every child * Remove the recursive call to unregister_sysctl_table as there is no need to traverse down the child tree any longer * Add a new SYSCTL_PERM_EMPTY_DIR binary flag * Remove the last remanence of child from partport/procfs.c Signed-off-by: Joel Granados Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain

sysctl: Refactor base paths registrations

2023-05-24T04:43:26Z

This is part of the general push to deprecate register_sysctl_paths and register_sysctl_table. The old way of doing this through register_sysctl_base and DECLARE_SYSCTL_BASE macro is replaced with a call to register_sysctl_init. The 5 base paths affected are: "kernel", "vm", "debug", "dev" and "fs". We remove the register_sysctl_base function and the DECLARE_SYSCTL_BASE macro since they are no longer needed. In order to quickly acertain that the paths did not actually change I executed `find /proc/sys/ | sha1sum` and made sure that the sha was the same before and after the commit. We end up saving 563 bytes with this change: ./scripts/bloat-o-meter vmlinux.0.base vmlinux.1.refactor-base-paths add/remove: 0/5 grow/shrink: 2/0 up/down: 77/-640 (-563) Function old new delta sysctl_init_bases 55 111 +56 init_fs_sysctls 12 33 +21 vm_base_table 128 - -128 kernel_base_table 128 - -128 fs_base_table 128 - -128 dev_base_table 128 - -128 debug_base_table 128 - -128 Total: Before=21258215, After=21257652, chg -0.00% [mcgrof: modified to use register_sysctl_init() over register_sysctl() and add bloat-o-meter stats] Signed-off-by: Joel Granados Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain Tested-by: Stephen Rothwell Acked-by: Christian Brauner

sysctl: stop exporting register_sysctl_table

2023-05-24T04:43:26Z

We make register_sysctl_table static because the only function calling it is in fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c (__register_sysctl_base). We remove it from the sysctl.h header and modify the documentation in both the header and proc_sysctl.c files to mention "register_sysctl" instead of "register_sysctl_table". This plus the commits that remove register_sysctl_table from parport save 217 bytes: ./scripts/bloat-o-meter .bsysctl/vmlinux.old .bsysctl/vmlinux.new add/remove: 0/1 grow/shrink: 5/1 up/down: 458/-675 (-217) Function old new delta __register_sysctl_base 8 286 +278 parport_proc_register 268 379 +111 parport_device_proc_register 195 247 +52 kzalloc.constprop 598 608 +10 parport_default_proc_register 62 69 +7 register_sysctl_table 291 - -291 parport_sysctl_template 1288 904 -384 Total: Before=8603076, After=8602859, chg -0.00% Signed-off-by: Joel Granados Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain

sysctl: remove register_sysctl_paths()

2023-05-03T02:24:16Z

The deprecation for register_sysctl_paths() is over. We can rejoice as we nuke register_sysctl_paths(). The routine register_sysctl_table() was the only user left of register_sysctl_paths(), so we can now just open code and move the implementation over to what used to be to __register_sysctl_paths(). The old dynamic struct ctl_table_set *set is now the point to sysctl_table_root.default_set. The old dynamic const struct ctl_path *path was being used in the routine register_sysctl_paths() with a static: static const struct ctl_path null_path[] = { {} }; Since this is a null path we can now just simplfy the old routine and remove its use as its always empty. This saves us a total of 230 bytes. $ ./scripts/bloat-o-meter vmlinux.old vmlinux add/remove: 2/7 grow/shrink: 1/1 up/down: 1015/-1245 (-230) Function old new delta register_leaf_sysctl_tables.constprop - 524 +524 register_sysctl_table 22 497 +475 __pfx_register_leaf_sysctl_tables.constprop - 16 +16 null_path 8 - -8 __pfx_register_sysctl_paths 16 - -16 __pfx_register_leaf_sysctl_tables 16 - -16 __pfx___register_sysctl_paths 16 - -16 __register_sysctl_base 29 12 -17 register_sysctl_paths 18 - -18 register_leaf_sysctl_tables 534 - -534 __register_sysctl_paths 620 - -620 Total: Before=21259666, After=21259436, chg -0.00% Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain

mm: hugetlb_vmemmap: improve hugetlb_vmemmap code readability

2022-08-09T01:06:43Z

There is a discussion about the name of hugetlb_vmemmap_alloc/free in thread [1]. The suggestion suggested by David is rename "alloc/free" to "optimize/restore" to make functionalities clearer to users, "optimize" means the function will optimize vmemmap pages, while "restore" means restoring its vmemmap pages discared before. This commit does this. Another discussion is the confusion RESERVE_VMEMMAP_NR isn't used explicitly for vmemmap_addr but implicitly for vmemmap_end in hugetlb_vmemmap_alloc/free. David suggested we can compute what hugetlb_vmemmap_init() does now at runtime. We do not need to worry for the overhead of computing at runtime since the calculation is simple enough and those functions are not in a hot path. This commit has the following improvements: 1) The function suffixed name ("optimize/restore") is more expressive. 2) The logic becomes less weird in hugetlb_vmemmap_optimize/restore(). 3) The hugetlb_vmemmap_init() does not need to be exported anymore. 4) A ->optimize_vmemmap_pages field in struct hstate is killed. 5) There is only one place where checks is_power_of_2(sizeof(struct page)) instead of two places. 6) Add more comments for hugetlb_vmemmap_optimize/restore(). 7) For external users, hugetlb_optimize_vmemmap_pages() is used for detecting if the HugeTLB's vmemmap pages is optimizable originally. In this commit, it is killed and we introduce a new helper hugetlb_vmemmap_optimizable() to replace it. The name is more expressive. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220404074652.68024-2-songmuchun@bytedance.com/ [1] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220628092235.91270-7-songmuchun@bytedance.com Signed-off-by: Muchun Song Reviewed-by: Mike Kravetz Cc: Anshuman Khandual Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Oscar Salvador Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Xiongchun Duan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

sysctl: add proc_dointvec_ms_jiffies_minmax

2022-06-30T11:14:35Z

add proc_dointvec_ms_jiffies_minmax to fit read msecs value to jiffies with a limited range of values Signed-off-by: Yuwei Wang Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni

net: sysctl: introduce sysctl SYSCTL_THREE

2022-05-03T08:15:06Z

This patch introdues the SYSCTL_THREE. KUnit: [00:10:14] ================ sysctl_test (10 subtests) ================= [00:10:14] [PASSED] sysctl_test_api_dointvec_null_tbl_data [00:10:14] [PASSED] sysctl_test_api_dointvec_table_maxlen_unset [00:10:14] [PASSED] sysctl_test_api_dointvec_table_len_is_zero [00:10:14] [PASSED] sysctl_test_api_dointvec_table_read_but_position_set [00:10:14] [PASSED] sysctl_test_dointvec_read_happy_single_positive [00:10:14] [PASSED] sysctl_test_dointvec_read_happy_single_negative [00:10:14] [PASSED] sysctl_test_dointvec_write_happy_single_positive [00:10:14] [PASSED] sysctl_test_dointvec_write_happy_single_negative [00:10:14] [PASSED] sysctl_test_api_dointvec_write_single_less_int_min [00:10:14] [PASSED] sysctl_test_api_dointvec_write_single_greater_int_max [00:10:14] =================== [PASSED] sysctl_test =================== ./run_kselftest.sh -c sysctl ... ok 1 selftests: sysctl: sysctl.sh Cc: Luis Chamberlain Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Iurii Zaikin Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: Jakub Kicinski Cc: Paolo Abeni Cc: Hideaki YOSHIFUJI Cc: David Ahern Cc: Simon Horman Cc: Julian Anastasov Cc: Pablo Neira Ayuso Cc: Jozsef Kadlecsik Cc: Florian Westphal Cc: Shuah Khan Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Alexei Starovoitov Cc: Eric Dumazet Cc: Lorenz Bauer Cc: Akhmat Karakotov Signed-off-by: Tonghao Zhang Reviewed-by: Simon Horman Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni

include/linux/sysctl.h: fix register_sysctl_mount_point() return type

2022-01-30T07:56:58Z

The CONFIG_SYSCTL=n stub returns the wrong type. Fixes: ee9efac48a082 ("sysctl: add helper to register a sysctl mount point") Reported-by: kernel test robot Acked-by: Luis Chamberlain Cc: Tong Zhang Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kernel/sysctl.c: rename sysctl_init() to sysctl_init_bases()

2022-01-22T06:33:36Z

Rename sysctl_init() to sysctl_init_bases() so to reflect exactly what this is doing. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211129211943.640266-4-mcgrof@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain Cc: Al Viro Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy Cc: Antti Palosaari Cc: Christian Brauner Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: Eric Biederman Cc: Eric Biggers Cc: Iurii Zaikin Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Lukas Middendorf Cc: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: "Naveen N. Rao" Cc: Stephen Kitt Cc: Xiaoming Ni Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

sysctl: add and use base directory declarer and registration helper

2022-01-22T06:33:36Z

Patch series "sysctl: add and use base directory declarer and registration helper". In this patch series we start addressing base directories, and so we start with the "fs" sysctls. The end goal is we end up completely moving all "fs" sysctl knobs out from kernel/sysctl. This patch (of 6): Add a set of helpers which can be used to declare and register base directory sysctls on their own. We do this so we can later move each of the base sysctl directories like "fs", "kernel", etc, to their own respective files instead of shoving the declarations and registrations all on kernel/sysctl.c. The lazy approach has caught up and with this, we just end up extending the list of base directories / sysctls on one file and this makes maintenance difficult due to merge conflicts from many developers. The declarations are used first by kernel/sysctl.c for registration its own base which over time we'll try to clean up. It will be used in the next patch to demonstrate how to cleanly deal with base sysctl directories. [mcgrof@kernel.org: null-terminate the ctl_table arrays] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YafJY3rXDYnjK/gs@bombadil.infradead.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211129211943.640266-1-mcgrof@kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211129211943.640266-2-mcgrof@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain Cc: Al Viro Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Iurii Zaikin Cc: Xiaoming Ni Cc: Eric Biederman Cc: Stephen Kitt Cc: Lukas Middendorf Cc: Antti Palosaari Cc: Christian Brauner Cc: Eric Biggers Cc: "Naveen N. Rao" Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds