Finally had time to respin the series of the work we had started last year on cleaning up the kernel/sysct.c kitchen sink. People keeps stuffing their sysctls in that file and this creates a maintenance burden. So this effort is aimed at placing sysctls where they actually belong. I'm going to split patches up into series as there is quite a bit of work. This first set adds register_sysctl_init() for uses of registerting a sysctl on the init path, adds const where missing to a few places, generalizes common values so to be more easy to share, and starts the move of a few kernel/sysctl.c out where they belong. The majority of rework on v2 in this first patch set is 0-day fixes. Eric W. Biederman's feedback is later addressed in subsequent patch sets. I'll only post the first two patch sets for now. We can address the rest once the first two patch sets get completely reviewed / Acked. Since the sysctls are all over the place I can either put up a tree to keep track of these changes and later send a pull request to Linus or we can have them trickle into Andrew's tree. Let me know what folks prefer. Changes in v2: * 0-day compile issues * added reviewed-by tags * enhanced commit logs * Added patch by Stephen Kitt Stephen Kitt (1): sysctl: make ngroups_max const Xiaoming Ni (8): sysctl: add a new register_sysctl_init() interface sysctl: Move some boundary constants from sysctl.c to sysctl_vals hung_task: Move hung_task sysctl interface to hung_task.c watchdog: move watchdog sysctl interface to watchdog.c sysctl: use const for typically used max/min proc sysctls sysctl: use SYSCTL_ZERO to replace some static int zero uses aio: move aio sysctl to aio.c dnotify: move dnotify sysctl to dnotify.c fs/aio.c | 31 +++- fs/notify/dnotify/dnotify.c | 21 ++- fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c | 35 ++++- include/linux/aio.h | 4 - include/linux/dnotify.h | 1 - include/linux/sched/sysctl.h | 14 +- include/linux/sysctl.h | 15 +- kernel/hung_task.c | 81 +++++++++- kernel/sysctl.c | 285 ++++++----------------------------- kernel/watchdog.c | 101 +++++++++++++ 10 files changed, 322 insertions(+), 266 deletions(-) -- 2.33.0
