[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 <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/fs/proc/Makefile b/fs/proc/Makefile
index f6c7762..a6b3a8f 100644
--- a/fs/proc/Makefile
+++ b/fs/proc/Makefile
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
proc-$(CONFIG_MMU) := mmu.o task_mmu.o
proc-y += inode.o root.o base.o generic.o array.o \
- proc_tty.o proc_misc.o
+ proc_tty.o proc_misc.o proc_sysctl.o
proc-$(CONFIG_PROC_KCORE) += kcore.o
proc-$(CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE) += vmcore.o