The patch titled Subject: fs: move inode sysctls to its own file has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is fs-move-inode-sysctls-to-its-own-file.patch This patch should soon appear at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/fs-move-inode-sysctls-to-its-own-file.patch and later at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/fs-move-inode-sysctls-to-its-own-file.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: fs: move inode sysctls to its own file Patch series "sysctl: 4th set of kernel/sysctl cleanups". This is slimming down the fs uses of kernel/sysctl.c to the point that the next step is to just get rid of the fs base directory for it and move that elsehwere, so that next patch series starts dealing with that to demo how we can end up cleaning up a full base directory from kernel/sysctl.c, one at a time. This patch (of 9): kernel/sysctl.c is a kitchen sink where everyone leaves their dirty dishes, this makes it very difficult to maintain. To help with this maintenance let's start by moving sysctls to places where they actually belong. The proc sysctl maintainers do not want to know what sysctl knobs you wish to add for your own piece of code, we just care about the core logic. So move the inode sysctls to its own file. Since we are no longer using this outside of fs/ remove the extern declaration of its respective proc helper. We use early_initcall() as it is the earliest we can use. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211129205548.605569-1-mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211129205548.605569-2-mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Iurii Zaikin <yzaikin@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Xiaoming Ni <nixiaoming@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Stephen Kitt <steve@xxxxxxx> Cc: Lukas Middendorf <kernel@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Antti Palosaari <crope@xxxxxx> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/inode.c | 31 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--- include/linux/fs.h | 3 --- kernel/sysctl.c | 14 -------------- 3 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-) --- a/fs/inode.c~fs-move-inode-sysctls-to-its-own-file +++ a/fs/inode.c @@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(empty_aops); /* * Statistics gathering.. */ -struct inodes_stat_t inodes_stat; +static struct inodes_stat_t inodes_stat; static DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned long, nr_inodes); static DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned long, nr_unused); @@ -106,13 +106,38 @@ long get_nr_dirty_inodes(void) * Handle nr_inode sysctl */ #ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL -int proc_nr_inodes(struct ctl_table *table, int write, - void *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos) +static int proc_nr_inodes(struct ctl_table *table, int write, void *buffer, + size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos) { inodes_stat.nr_inodes = get_nr_inodes(); inodes_stat.nr_unused = get_nr_inodes_unused(); return proc_doulongvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, lenp, ppos); } + +static struct ctl_table inodes_sysctls[] = { + { + .procname = "inode-nr", + .data = &inodes_stat, + .maxlen = 2*sizeof(long), + .mode = 0444, + .proc_handler = proc_nr_inodes, + }, + { + .procname = "inode-state", + .data = &inodes_stat, + .maxlen = 7*sizeof(long), + .mode = 0444, + .proc_handler = proc_nr_inodes, + }, + { } +}; + +static int __init init_fs_inode_sysctls(void) +{ + register_sysctl_init("fs", inodes_sysctls); + return 0; +} +early_initcall(init_fs_inode_sysctls); #endif static int no_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file) --- a/include/linux/fs.h~fs-move-inode-sysctls-to-its-own-file +++ a/include/linux/fs.h @@ -81,7 +81,6 @@ extern void __init files_maxfiles_init(v extern struct files_stat_struct files_stat; extern unsigned long get_max_files(void); extern unsigned int sysctl_nr_open; -extern struct inodes_stat_t inodes_stat; extern int leases_enable, lease_break_time; extern int sysctl_protected_symlinks; extern int sysctl_protected_hardlinks; @@ -3596,8 +3595,6 @@ int proc_nr_files(struct ctl_table *tabl void *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos); int proc_nr_dentry(struct ctl_table *table, int write, void *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos); -int proc_nr_inodes(struct ctl_table *table, int write, - void *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos); int __init list_bdev_fs_names(char *buf, size_t size); #define __FMODE_EXEC ((__force int) FMODE_EXEC) --- a/kernel/sysctl.c~fs-move-inode-sysctls-to-its-own-file +++ a/kernel/sysctl.c @@ -2901,20 +2901,6 @@ static struct ctl_table vm_table[] = { static struct ctl_table fs_table[] = { { - .procname = "inode-nr", - .data = &inodes_stat, - .maxlen = 2*sizeof(long), - .mode = 0444, - .proc_handler = proc_nr_inodes, - }, - { - .procname = "inode-state", - .data = &inodes_stat, - .maxlen = 7*sizeof(long), - .mode = 0444, - .proc_handler = proc_nr_inodes, - }, - { .procname = "file-nr", .data = &files_stat, .maxlen = sizeof(files_stat), _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx are zram-use-attribute_groups.patch hpet-simplify-subdirectory-registration-with-register_sysctl.patch i915-simplify-subdirectory-registration-with-register_sysctl.patch macintosh-mac_hidc-simplify-subdirectory-registration-with-register_sysctl.patch ocfs2-simplify-subdirectory-registration-with-register_sysctl.patch test_sysctl-simplify-subdirectory-registration-with-register_sysctl.patch inotify-simplify-subdirectory-registration-with-register_sysctl-fix.patch cdrom-simplify-subdirectory-registration-with-register_sysctl.patch sysctl-add-helper-to-register-a-sysctl-mount-point.patch fs-move-binfmt_misc-sysctl-to-its-own-file.patch sysctl-share-unsigned-long-const-values.patch fs-move-inode-sysctls-to-its-own-file.patch fs-move-fs-stat-sysctls-to-file_tablec.patch fs-move-dcache-sysctls-to-its-own-file.patch sysctl-move-maxolduid-as-a-sysctl-specific-const.patch fs-move-shared-sysctls-to-fs-sysctlsc.patch fs-move-locking-sysctls-where-they-are-used.patch fs-move-namei-sysctls-to-its-own-file.patch fs-move-fs-execc-sysctls-into-its-own-file.patch fs-move-pipe-sysctls-to-is-own-file.patch sysctl-add-and-use-base-directory-declarer-and-registration-helper.patch fs-move-namespace-sysctls-and-declare-fs-base-directory.patch kernel-sysctlc-rename-sysctl_init-to-sysctl_init_bases.patch