On Wed, Mar 02, 2022 at 10:55:10AM +0800, Meng Tang wrote: > Sysctls are being moved out of kernel/sysctl.c and out to > their own respective subsystems / users to help with easier > maintance and avoid merge conflicts. But when we move just > one entry and to its own new file the last entry for this > new file must be empty, so we are essentialy bloating the > kernel one extra empty entry per each newly moved sysctl. > > To help with this, this adds support for registering just > one ctl_table, therefore not bloating the kernel when we > move a single ctl_table to its own file. > > Since the process of registering just one single table is the > same as that of registering an array table, so the code is > similar to registering an array table. The difference between > registering just one table and registering an array table is > that we no longer traversal through pointers when registering > a single table. These lead to that we have to add a complete > implementation process for register just one ctl_table, so we > have to add so much code. > > Suggested-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Meng Tang <tangmeng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Is there really no helpers which you can add to share code? Now that you did this work, look carefully. Luis
