Re: [PATCH 1/5] kernel/lockdep: move lockdep sysctls to its own file

From: Luis Chamberlain
Date: Fri Feb 18 2022 - 13:33:26 EST


On Fri, Feb 18, 2022 at 06:58:57PM +0800, tangmeng wrote:
> 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.
>
> All filesystem syctls now get reviewed by fs folks. This commit
> follows the commit of fs, move the prove_locking and lock_stat sysctls
> to its own file, kernel/lockdep.c.
>
> Signed-off-by: tangmeng <tangmeng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks!

Queued on to the new sysctl-next [0] please use that tree for further sysctl
changes. And please Cc zhanglianjie and nizhen and Xiaoming Ni on future
changes as well.

[0] git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux.git sysctl-next

Luis