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| author | Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> | 2007-02-14 00:34:12 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-02-14 08:10:00 -0800 |
| commit | 77b14db502cb85a031fe8fde6c85d52f3e0acb63 (patch) | |
| tree | 4201f6a4dfe1062d1dc00659c403d630401b87cc /fs/proc/root.c | |
| parent | 1ff007eb8e8c7c44e9a384a67d0fdd0fd06ba811 (diff) | |
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[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>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/proc/root.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/proc/root.c | 10 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/fs/proc/root.c b/fs/proc/root.c index 6ae222b509ce..5834a744c2a9 100644 --- a/fs/proc/root.c +++ b/fs/proc/root.c @@ -23,10 +23,6 @@ struct proc_dir_entry *proc_net, *proc_net_stat, *proc_bus, *proc_root_fs, *proc_root_driver; -#ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL -struct proc_dir_entry *proc_sys_root; -#endif - static int proc_get_sb(struct file_system_type *fs_type, int flags, const char *dev_name, void *data, struct vfsmount *mnt) { @@ -71,9 +67,6 @@ void __init proc_root_init(void) #ifdef CONFIG_SYSVIPC proc_mkdir("sysvipc", NULL); #endif -#ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL - proc_sys_root = proc_mkdir("sys", NULL); -#endif proc_root_fs = proc_mkdir("fs", NULL); proc_root_driver = proc_mkdir("driver", NULL); proc_mkdir("fs/nfsd", NULL); /* somewhere for the nfsd filesystem to be mounted */ @@ -86,6 +79,9 @@ void __init proc_root_init(void) proc_device_tree_init(); #endif proc_bus = proc_mkdir("bus", NULL); +#ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL + proc_sys_init(); +#endif } static int proc_root_getattr(struct vfsmount *mnt, struct dentry *dentry, struct kstat *stat |