[patch] sysctl: clean up vm related variable declarations

From: David Rientjes
Date: Tue Feb 02 2010 - 21:36:54 EST


From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Now, there are many "extern" declaration in kernel/sysctl.c. "extern"
declaration in *.c file is not appreciated in general.
And Hmm...it seems there are a few redundant declarations.

Because most of sysctl variables are defined in its own header file,
they should be declared in the same style, be done in its own *.h file.

This patch removes some VM(memory management) related sysctl's
variable declaration from kernel/sysctl.c and move them to
proper places.

[rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx: #ifdef fixlet]
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/mm.h | 5 +++++
include/linux/mmzone.h | 1 +
include/linux/oom.h | 5 +++++
kernel/sysctl.c | 16 ++--------------
mm/mmap.c | 5 +++++
5 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -1305,6 +1305,7 @@ int in_gate_area_no_task(unsigned long addr);
#define in_gate_area(task, addr) ({(void)task; in_gate_area_no_task(addr);})
#endif /* __HAVE_ARCH_GATE_AREA */

+extern int sysctl_drop_caches;
int drop_caches_sysctl_handler(struct ctl_table *, int,
void __user *, size_t *, loff_t *);
unsigned long shrink_slab(unsigned long scanned, gfp_t gfp_mask,
@@ -1347,5 +1348,9 @@ extern void shake_page(struct page *p, int access);
extern atomic_long_t mce_bad_pages;
extern int soft_offline_page(struct page *page, int flags);

+#ifndef CONFIG_MMU
+extern int sysctl_nr_trim_pages;
+#endif
+
#endif /* __KERNEL__ */
#endif /* _LINUX_MM_H */
diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h
--- a/include/linux/mmzone.h
+++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h
@@ -760,6 +760,7 @@ int min_free_kbytes_sysctl_handler(struct ctl_table *, int,
extern int sysctl_lowmem_reserve_ratio[MAX_NR_ZONES-1];
int lowmem_reserve_ratio_sysctl_handler(struct ctl_table *, int,
void __user *, size_t *, loff_t *);
+extern int percpu_pagelist_fraction; /* for sysctl */
int percpu_pagelist_fraction_sysctl_handler(struct ctl_table *, int,
void __user *, size_t *, loff_t *);
int sysctl_min_unmapped_ratio_sysctl_handler(struct ctl_table *, int,
diff --git a/include/linux/oom.h b/include/linux/oom.h
--- a/include/linux/oom.h
+++ b/include/linux/oom.h
@@ -43,5 +43,10 @@ static inline void oom_killer_enable(void)
{
oom_killer_disabled = false;
}
+/* for sysctl */
+extern int sysctl_panic_on_oom;
+extern int sysctl_oom_kill_allocating_task;
+extern int sysctl_oom_dump_tasks;
+
#endif /* __KERNEL__*/
#endif /* _INCLUDE_LINUX_OOM_H */
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -50,6 +50,8 @@
#include <linux/ftrace.h>
#include <linux/slow-work.h>
#include <linux/perf_event.h>
+#include <linux/mman.h>
+#include <linux/oom.h>

#include <asm/uaccess.h>
#include <asm/processor.h>
@@ -66,11 +68,6 @@
/* External variables not in a header file. */
extern int C_A_D;
extern int print_fatal_signals;
-extern int sysctl_overcommit_memory;
-extern int sysctl_overcommit_ratio;
-extern int sysctl_panic_on_oom;
-extern int sysctl_oom_kill_allocating_task;
-extern int sysctl_oom_dump_tasks;
extern int max_threads;
extern int core_uses_pid;
extern int suid_dumpable;
@@ -79,14 +76,9 @@ extern unsigned int core_pipe_limit;
extern int pid_max;
extern int min_free_kbytes;
extern int pid_max_min, pid_max_max;
-extern int sysctl_drop_caches;
-extern int percpu_pagelist_fraction;
extern int compat_log;
extern int latencytop_enabled;
extern int sysctl_nr_open_min, sysctl_nr_open_max;
-#ifndef CONFIG_MMU
-extern int sysctl_nr_trim_pages;
-#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST
extern int rcutorture_runnable;
#endif /* #ifdef CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST */
@@ -197,10 +189,6 @@ extern struct ctl_table inotify_table[];
extern struct ctl_table epoll_table[];
#endif

-#ifdef HAVE_ARCH_PICK_MMAP_LAYOUT
-int sysctl_legacy_va_layout;
-#endif
-
extern int prove_locking;
extern int lock_stat;

diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c
--- a/mm/mmap.c
+++ b/mm/mmap.c
@@ -87,6 +87,11 @@ int sysctl_overcommit_ratio = 50; /* default is 50% */
int sysctl_max_map_count __read_mostly = DEFAULT_MAX_MAP_COUNT;
struct percpu_counter vm_committed_as;

+#ifdef HAVE_ARCH_PICK_MMAP_LAYOUT
+/* Used by each architecture's private code and sysctl. */
+int sysctl_legacy_va_layout;
+#endif
+
/*
* Check that a process has enough memory to allocate a new virtual
* mapping. 0 means there is enough memory for the allocation to
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