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 2 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.
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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
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