From 77b14db502cb85a031fe8fde6c85d52f3e0acb63 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric W. Biederman" Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 00:34:12 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] sysctl: reimplement the sysctl proc support With this change the sysctl inodes can be cached and nothing needs to be done when removing a sysctl table. For a cost of 2K code we will save about 4K of static tables (when we remove de from ctl_table) and 70K in proc_dir_entries that we will not allocate, or about half that on a 32bit arch. The speed feels about the same, even though we can now cache the sysctl dentries :( We get the core advantage that we don't need to have a 1 to 1 mapping between ctl table entries and proc files. Making it possible to have /proc/sys vary depending on the namespace you are in. The currently merged namespaces don't have an issue here but the network namespace under /proc/sys/net needs to have different directories depending on which network adapters are visible. By simply being a cache different directories being visible depending on who you are is trivial to implement. [akpm@osdl.org: fix uninitialised var] [akpm@osdl.org: fix ARM build] [bunk@stusta.de: make things static] Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman Cc: Russell King Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/sysctl.h | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'include/linux/sysctl.h') diff --git a/include/linux/sysctl.h b/include/linux/sysctl.h index 9698ac30f55..89150494bd1 100644 --- a/include/linux/sysctl.h +++ b/include/linux/sysctl.h @@ -930,8 +930,6 @@ extern struct ctl_table_header *sysctl_head_next(struct ctl_table_header *prev); extern void sysctl_head_finish(struct ctl_table_header *prev); extern int sysctl_perm(struct ctl_table *table, int op); -extern void sysctl_init(void); - typedef struct ctl_table ctl_table; typedef int ctl_handler (ctl_table *table, int __user *name, int nlen, -- cgit v1.2.3