The patch titled sysctl: sn: remove sysctl ABI BREAKAGE has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is sysctl-sn-remove-sysctl-abi-breakage.patch *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: sysctl: sn: remove sysctl ABI BREAKAGE From: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> By not using the enumeration in sysctl.h (or even understanding it) the SN platform placed their arch specific xpc directory on top of CTL_KERN and only because they didn't have 4 entries in their xpc directory got lucky and didn't break glibc. This is totally irresponsible. So this patch entirely removes sys_sysctl support from their sysctl code. Hopefully they don't have ascii name conflicts as well. And now that they have no ABI numbers add them to the end instead of the sysctl list instead of the head so nothing else will be overridden. Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> --- arch/ia64/sn/kernel/xpc_main.c | 12 ++++++------ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff -puN arch/ia64/sn/kernel/xpc_main.c~sysctl-sn-remove-sysctl-abi-breakage arch/ia64/sn/kernel/xpc_main.c --- a/arch/ia64/sn/kernel/xpc_main.c~sysctl-sn-remove-sysctl-abi-breakage +++ a/arch/ia64/sn/kernel/xpc_main.c @@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ static int xpc_disengage_request_max_tim static ctl_table xpc_sys_xpc_hb_dir[] = { { - 1, + CTL_UNNUMBERED, "hb_interval", &xpc_hb_interval, sizeof(int), @@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ static ctl_table xpc_sys_xpc_hb_dir[] = &xpc_hb_max_interval }, { - 2, + CTL_UNNUMBERED, "hb_check_interval", &xpc_hb_check_interval, sizeof(int), @@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ static ctl_table xpc_sys_xpc_hb_dir[] = }; static ctl_table xpc_sys_xpc_dir[] = { { - 1, + CTL_UNNUMBERED, "hb", NULL, 0, @@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ static ctl_table xpc_sys_xpc_dir[] = { xpc_sys_xpc_hb_dir }, { - 2, + CTL_UNNUMBERED, "disengage_request_timelimit", &xpc_disengage_request_timelimit, sizeof(int), @@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ static ctl_table xpc_sys_xpc_dir[] = { }; static ctl_table xpc_sys_dir[] = { { - 1, + CTL_UNNUMBERED, "xpc", NULL, 0, @@ -1251,7 +1251,7 @@ xpc_init(void) snprintf(xpc_part->bus_id, BUS_ID_SIZE, "part"); snprintf(xpc_chan->bus_id, BUS_ID_SIZE, "chan"); - xpc_sysctl = register_sysctl_table(xpc_sys_dir, 1); + xpc_sysctl = register_sysctl_table(xpc_sys_dir, 0); /* * The first few fields of each entry of xpc_partitions[] need to _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx are kthread-api-conversion-for-dvb_frontend-and-av7110.patch vt-refactor-console-sak-processing.patch sysctl_ms_jiffies-fix-oldlen-semantics.patch 9p-use-kthread_stop-instead-of-sending-a-sigkill.patch procfs-fix-race-between-proc_readdir-and-remove_proc_entry.patch procfs-fix-race-between-proc_readdir-and-remove_proc_entry-fix.patch kill_pid_info-kill-acquired_tasklist_lock.patch 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