Re: [PATCH v4 7/8] sysctl: Refactor base paths registrations

From: Christian Brauner
Date: Tue May 23 2023 - 08:56:15 EST


On Tue, May 23, 2023 at 02:22:19PM +0200, Joel Granados wrote:
> This is part of the general push to deprecate register_sysctl_paths and
> register_sysctl_table. The old way of doing this through
> register_sysctl_base and DECLARE_SYSCTL_BASE macro is replaced with a
> call to register_sysctl_init. The 5 base paths affected are: "kernel",
> "vm", "debug", "dev" and "fs".
>
> We remove the register_sysctl_base function and the DECLARE_SYSCTL_BASE
> macro since they are no longer needed.
>
> In order to quickly acertain that the paths did not actually change I
> executed `find /proc/sys/ | sha1sum` and made sure that the sha was the
> same before and after the commit.
>
> We end up saving 563 bytes with this change:
>
> ./scripts/bloat-o-meter vmlinux.0.base vmlinux.1.refactor-base-paths
> add/remove: 0/5 grow/shrink: 2/0 up/down: 77/-640 (-563)
> Function old new delta
> sysctl_init_bases 55 111 +56
> init_fs_sysctls 12 33 +21
> vm_base_table 128 - -128
> kernel_base_table 128 - -128
> fs_base_table 128 - -128
> dev_base_table 128 - -128
> debug_base_table 128 - -128
> Total: Before=21258215, After=21257652, chg -0.00%
>
> Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <j.granados@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> [mcgrof: modified to use register_sysctl_init() over register_sysctl()
> and add bloat-o-meter stats]
> Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

Acked-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx>