[PATCH v5 -next 00/16] sysctl: move sysctls from vm_table into its own files

[Joel Granados]

On Wed, Jan 15, 2025 at 09:53:53AM +0800, yukaixiong wrote:
> 
> 
> On 2025/1/14 21:50, Joel Granados wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 11, 2025 at 03:07:35PM +0800, Kaixiong Yu wrote:
> > > This patch series moves sysctls of vm_table in kernel/sysctl.c to
> > > places where they actually belong, and do some related code clean-ups.
> > > After this patch series, all sysctls in vm_table have been moved into its
> > > own files, meanwhile, delete vm_table.
> > > 
> > > All the modifications of this patch series base on
> > > linux-next(tags/next-20250110). To test this patch series, the code was
> > > compiled with both the CONFIG_SYSCTL enabled and disabled on arm64 and
> > > x86_64 architectures. After this patch series is applied, all files
> > > under /proc/sys/vm can be read or written normally.
> > It is looking good! Here is how I think we should move it upstream:
> > 
> > 1. These should queued in for 6.15 instead of the next merge window.
> >     It is too late in the current cycle and if we put it in now, it will
> >     not properly tested in linux-next.
> > 
> > 2. I am putting this in sysctl-testing with the expectation of pushing this
> >     up for the 6.15 merge window. Please tell me if you want this to go
> >     through some other tree.
> > 
> > Thx for the contribution
> > 
> > Best
> 
> Thank you! I don't want this to go through some other tree.
This was more for the mm, net and security maintainers :)


> 
> Best ...
> > > my test steps as below listed:
> > > 
> > > Step 1: Set CONFIG_SYSCTL to 'n' and compile the Linux kernel on the
> > > arm64 architecture. The kernel compiles successfully without any errors
> > > or warnings.
> > > 
> > ...
> > >   mm/swap.c                          |  16 ++-
> > >   mm/swap.h                          |   1 +
> > >   mm/util.c                          |  67 +++++++--
> > >   mm/vmscan.c                        |  23 +++
> > >   mm/vmstat.c                        |  44 +++++-
> > >   net/sunrpc/auth.c                  |   2 +-
> > >   security/min_addr.c                |  11 ++
> > >   23 files changed, 336 insertions(+), 312 deletions(-)
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > 2.34.1
> > > 
> 

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Joel Granados