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 --- fs/proc/internal.h | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'fs/proc/internal.h') diff --git a/fs/proc/internal.h b/fs/proc/internal.h index 277dcd66ebe..c932aa65e19 100644 --- a/fs/proc/internal.h +++ b/fs/proc/internal.h @@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ #include +extern int proc_sys_init(void); + struct vmalloc_info { unsigned long used; unsigned long largest_chunk; -- cgit v1.2.3