[PATCH 1/2] sysctl: move umh sysctl registration to its own file

Jarkko Sakkinen jarkko at kernel.org
Tue Jun 6 20:37:53 UTC 2023


On Wed May 31, 2023 at 2:29 AM EEST, Luis Chamberlain wrote:
> Move the umh sysctl registration to its own file, the array is
> already there. We do this to remove the clutter out of kernel/sysctl.c
> to avoid merge conflicts.
>
> This also lets the sysctls not be built at all now when CONFIG_SYSCTL
> is not enabled.
>
> This has a small penalty of 23 bytes but soon we'll be removing
> all the empty entries on sysctl arrays so just do this cleanup
> now:
>
> ./scripts/bloat-o-meter vmlinux.base vmlinux.1
> add/remove: 2/0 grow/shrink: 0/1 up/down: 49/-26 (23)
> Function                                     old     new   delta
> init_umh_sysctls                               -      33     +33
> __pfx_init_umh_sysctls                         -      16     +16
> sysctl_init_bases                            111      85     -26
> Total: Before=21256914, After=21256937, chg +0.00%
>
> Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof at kernel.org>
> ---
>  include/linux/umh.h |  2 --
>  kernel/sysctl.c     |  1 -
>  kernel/umh.c        | 11 ++++++++++-
>  3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Acked-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko at kernel.org>

BR, Jarkko



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