linux/init
Eric W. Biederman 77b14db502 [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>
2007-02-14 08:10:00 -08:00
..
calibrate.c [PATCH] remove many unneeded #includes of sched.h 2007-02-14 08:09:54 -08:00
do_mounts_initrd.c
do_mounts_md.c
do_mounts_rd.c
do_mounts.c
do_mounts.h
initramfs.c [PATCH] Add retain_initrd boot option 2007-02-11 10:51:24 -08:00
Kconfig [PATCH] sysctl: move SYSV IPC sysctls to their own file 2007-02-14 08:09:59 -08:00
main.c [PATCH] sysctl: reimplement the sysctl proc support 2007-02-14 08:10:00 -08:00
Makefile [PATCH] disable init/initramfs.c 2007-02-11 10:51:25 -08:00
noinitramfs.c [PATCH] disable init/initramfs.c 2007-02-11 10:51:25 -08:00
version.c [PATCH] remove many unneeded #includes of sched.h 2007-02-14 08:09:54 -08:00