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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2023-11-01 20:51:41 -1000
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2023-11-01 20:51:41 -1000
commit426ee5196d1821d70192923e70c0f8347faade47 (patch)
treeb035106d7c6b1162a0bc6c3fc5dd58115b6f3256 /drivers/char
parentbabe393974de0351c0e6cca50f5f84edaf8d7fa1 (diff)
parent8b793bcda61f6c3ed4f5b2ded7530ef6749580cb (diff)
Merge tag 'sysctl-6.7-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux
Pull sysctl updates from Luis Chamberlain: "To help make the move of sysctls out of kernel/sysctl.c not incur a size penalty sysctl has been changed to allow us to not require the sentinel, the final empty element on the sysctl array. Joel Granados has been doing all this work. On the v6.6 kernel we got the major infrastructure changes required to support this. For v6.7-rc1 we have all arch/ and drivers/ modified to remove the sentinel. Both arch and driver changes have been on linux-next for a bit less than a month. It is worth re-iterating the value: - this helps reduce the overall build time size of the kernel and run time memory consumed by the kernel by about ~64 bytes per array - the extra 64-byte penalty is no longer inncurred now when we move sysctls out from kernel/sysctl.c to their own files For v6.8-rc1 expect removal of all the sentinels and also then the unneeded check for procname == NULL. The last two patches are fixes recently merged by Krister Johansen which allow us again to use softlockup_panic early on boot. This used to work but the alias work broke it. This is useful for folks who want to detect softlockups super early rather than wait and spend money on cloud solutions with nothing but an eventual hung kernel. Although this hadn't gone through linux-next it's also a stable fix, so we might as well roll through the fixes now" * tag 'sysctl-6.7-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux: (23 commits) watchdog: move softlockup_panic back to early_param proc: sysctl: prevent aliased sysctls from getting passed to init intel drm: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array Drivers: hv: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array raid: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array fw loader: Remove the now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array sgi-xp: Remove the now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array vrf: Remove the now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array char-misc: Remove the now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array infiniband: Remove the now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array macintosh: Remove the now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array parport: Remove the now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array scsi: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array tty: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array xen: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array hpet: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array c-sky: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_talbe array powerpc: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table arrays riscv: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array x86/vdso: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array ...
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char')
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/hpet.c1
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_poweroff.c1
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/random.c1
3 files changed, 0 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/hpet.c b/drivers/char/hpet.c
index 3b2159416e62..e1deb7a69b8a 100644
--- a/drivers/char/hpet.c
+++ b/drivers/char/hpet.c
@@ -709,7 +709,6 @@ static struct ctl_table hpet_table[] = {
.mode = 0644,
.proc_handler = proc_dointvec,
},
- {}
};
static struct ctl_table_header *sysctl_header;
diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_poweroff.c b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_poweroff.c
index 870659d91db2..941d2dcc8c9d 100644
--- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_poweroff.c
+++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_poweroff.c
@@ -656,7 +656,6 @@ static struct ctl_table ipmi_table[] = {
.maxlen = sizeof(poweroff_powercycle),
.mode = 0644,
.proc_handler = proc_dointvec },
- { }
};
static struct ctl_table_header *ipmi_table_header;
diff --git a/drivers/char/random.c b/drivers/char/random.c
index 3cb37760dfec..4a9c79391dee 100644
--- a/drivers/char/random.c
+++ b/drivers/char/random.c
@@ -1683,7 +1683,6 @@ static struct ctl_table random_table[] = {
.mode = 0444,
.proc_handler = proc_do_uuid,
},
- { }
};
/*