Re: [PATCH v3 -next 00/15] sysctl: move sysctls from vm_table into its own files

[Liam R. Howlett]

* Kaixiong Yu <yukaixiong@xxxxxxxxxx> [241010 10:11]:
> This patch series moves sysctls of vm_table in kernel/sysctl.c to
> places where they actually belong, and do some related code clean-ups.
> After this patch series, all sysctls in vm_table have been moved into its
> own files, meanwhile, delete vm_table.
> 
> All the modifications of this patch series base on
> linux-next(tags/next-20241010). To test this patch series, the code was
> compiled with both the CONFIG_SYSCTL enabled and disabled on arm64 and
> x86_64 architectures. After this patch series is applied, all files
> under /proc/sys/vm can be read or written normally.

This change set moves nommu code out of the common code into the nommu.c
file (which is nice), but the above text implies that no testing was
performed on that code.  Could we have some basic compile/boot testing
for nommu?

> 
> Changes in v3:
>  - change patch1~10, patch14 title suggested by Joel Granados
>  - change sysctl_stat_interval to static type in patch1
>  - add acked-by from Paul Moore in patch7
>  - change dirtytime_expire_interval to static type in patch9
>  - add acked-by from Anna Schumaker in patch11
> 
> Changes in v2:
>  - fix sysctl_max_map_count undeclared issue in mm/nommu.c for patch6
>  - update changelog for patch7/12, suggested by Kees/Paul
>  - fix patch8, sorry for wrong changes and forget to built with NOMMU
>  - add reviewed-by from Kees except patch8 since patch8 is wrong in v1
>  - add reviewed-by from Jan Kara, Christian Brauner in patch12
> 
> Kaixiong Yu (15):
>   mm: vmstat: move sysctls to mm/vmstat.c
>   mm: filemap: move sysctl to mm/filemap.c
>   mm: swap: move sysctl to mm/swap.c
>   mm: vmscan: move vmscan sysctls to mm/vmscan.c
>   mm: util: move sysctls to mm/util.c
>   mm: mmap: move sysctl to mm/mmap.c
>   security: min_addr: move sysctl to security/min_addr.c
>   mm: nommu: move sysctl to mm/nommu.c
>   fs: fs-writeback: move sysctl to fs/fs-writeback.c
>   fs: drop_caches: move sysctl to fs/drop_caches.c
>   sunrpc: use vfs_pressure_ratio() helper
>   fs: dcache: move the sysctl to fs/dcache.c
>   x86: vdso: move the sysctl to arch/x86/entry/vdso/vdso32-setup.c
>   sh: vdso: move the sysctl to arch/sh/kernel/vsyscall/vsyscall.c
>   sysctl: remove unneeded include
> 
>  arch/sh/kernel/vsyscall/vsyscall.c |  14 ++
>  arch/x86/entry/vdso/vdso32-setup.c |  16 ++-
>  fs/dcache.c                        |  21 ++-
>  fs/drop_caches.c                   |  23 ++-
>  fs/fs-writeback.c                  |  30 ++--
>  include/linux/dcache.h             |   7 +-
>  include/linux/mm.h                 |  23 ---
>  include/linux/mman.h               |   2 -
>  include/linux/swap.h               |   9 --
>  include/linux/vmstat.h             |  11 --
>  include/linux/writeback.h          |   4 -
>  kernel/sysctl.c                    | 221 -----------------------------
>  mm/filemap.c                       |  18 ++-
>  mm/internal.h                      |  10 ++
>  mm/mmap.c                          |  54 +++++++
>  mm/nommu.c                         |  15 +-
>  mm/swap.c                          |  16 ++-
>  mm/swap.h                          |   1 +
>  mm/util.c                          |  67 +++++++--
>  mm/vmscan.c                        |  23 +++
>  mm/vmstat.c                        |  44 +++++-
>  net/sunrpc/auth.c                  |   2 +-
>  security/min_addr.c                |  11 ++
>  23 files changed, 330 insertions(+), 312 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 2.34.1
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