On Wed, May 18, 2022 at 08:25:41PM -0700, Luis Chamberlain wrote:
> On Tue, May 17, 2022 at 08:57:37AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > On Tue, May 17, 2022 at 05:07:31PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > > There are two adjacent sysctl entries protected by the same
> > > CONFIG_TREE_RCU config symbol. Merge them into a single block to
> > > improve readability.
> > >
> > > Use the more common "#ifdef" form while at it.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > If you would like me to take this, please let me know. (The default
> > would be not the upcoming merge window, but the one after that.)
> >
> > If you would rather send it via some other path:
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> The one that that occurs to me is that while at it, Geert,
> can you also just then follow up with a patch 2/2 which then
> moves the sysctl out to the respective RCU code. If you look
> at linux-nxt kernel/sysctl.c is getting modified heavily with
> time to avoid stuffing everyone's sysctls there because this
> creates merge conflicts, make the file hard to read, and we
> have ways to split this.
>
> This work started about 2 kernel releases ago and is ongoing,
> it may take 3-4 more before kernel/sysctl.c stop being a kitchen
> sink of everyone's syctls.
>
> Paul, I've been collecting these modifications in a sysctl-next
> tree to avoid merge conflicts, and I try to not do to much per
> kernel release. If you like I can take this in for that tree
> as well, but as you noted, this would be for the next release,
> not the current one which we'll soon enter the merge window for.
>
> Let me know!
Please do take it!
Thanx, Paul
> Luis
> >
> > > ---
> > > kernel/sysctl.c | 4 +---
> > > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
> > > index 82bcf5e3009fa377..597069da18148f42 100644
> > > --- a/kernel/sysctl.c
> > > +++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
> > > @@ -2227,7 +2227,7 @@ static struct ctl_table kern_table[] = {
> > > .extra1 = SYSCTL_ZERO,
> > > .extra2 = SYSCTL_ONE,
> > > },
> > > -#if defined(CONFIG_TREE_RCU)
> > > +#ifdef CONFIG_TREE_RCU
> > > {
> > > .procname = "panic_on_rcu_stall",
> > > .data = &sysctl_panic_on_rcu_stall,
> > > @@ -2237,8 +2237,6 @@ static struct ctl_table kern_table[] = {
> > > .extra1 = SYSCTL_ZERO,
> > > .extra2 = SYSCTL_ONE,
> > > },
> > > -#endif
> > > -#if defined(CONFIG_TREE_RCU)
> > > {
> > > .procname = "max_rcu_stall_to_panic",
> > > .data = &sysctl_max_rcu_stall_to_panic,
> > > --
> > > 2.25.1
> > >
