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 --- init/main.c | 4 ---- 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'init') diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c index a20a5138211f..649ab5443d43 100644 --- a/init/main.c +++ b/init/main.c @@ -86,7 +86,6 @@ extern void init_IRQ(void); extern void fork_init(unsigned long); extern void mca_init(void); extern void sbus_init(void); -extern void sysctl_init(void); extern void signals_init(void); extern void pidhash_init(void); extern void pidmap_init(void); @@ -702,9 +701,6 @@ static void __init do_basic_setup(void) usermodehelper_init(); driver_init(); -#ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL - sysctl_init(); -#endif #ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS init_irq_proc(); #endif -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b