[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>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 4 deletions

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