Re: [PATCH v2 9/9] dnotify: move dnotify sysctl to dnotify.c

From: Jan Kara
Date: Wed Nov 24 2021 - 04:31:46 EST


On Tue 23-11-21 12:23:47, Luis Chamberlain wrote:
> From: Xiaoming Ni <nixiaoming@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> The kernel/sysctl.c is a kitchen sink where everyone leaves
> their dirty dishes, this makes it very difficult to maintain.
>
> To help with this maintenance let's start by moving sysctls to
> places where they actually belong. The proc sysctl maintainers
> do not want to know what sysctl knobs you wish to add for your own
> piece of code, we just care about the core logic.
>
> So move dnotify sysctls to dnotify.c and use the new
> register_sysctl_init() to register the sysctl interface.
>
> Signed-off-by: Xiaoming Ni <nixiaoming@xxxxxxxxxx>
> [mcgrof: adjust the commit log to justify the move]
> Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx>

Looks sane. Feel free to add:

Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>

Honza

> ---
> fs/notify/dnotify/dnotify.c | 21 ++++++++++++++++++++-
> include/linux/dnotify.h | 1 -
> kernel/sysctl.c | 10 ----------
> 3 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/notify/dnotify/dnotify.c b/fs/notify/dnotify/dnotify.c
> index e85e13c50d6d..2b04e2296fb6 100644
> --- a/fs/notify/dnotify/dnotify.c
> +++ b/fs/notify/dnotify/dnotify.c
> @@ -19,7 +19,25 @@
> #include <linux/fdtable.h>
> #include <linux/fsnotify_backend.h>
>
> -int dir_notify_enable __read_mostly = 1;
> +static int dir_notify_enable __read_mostly = 1;
> +#ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL
> +static struct ctl_table dnotify_sysctls[] = {
> + {
> + .procname = "dir-notify-enable",
> + .data = &dir_notify_enable,
> + .maxlen = sizeof(int),
> + .mode = 0644,
> + .proc_handler = proc_dointvec,
> + },
> + {}
> +};
> +static void __init dnotify_sysctl_init(void)
> +{
> + register_sysctl_init("fs", dnotify_sysctls);
> +}
> +#else
> +#define dnotify_sysctl_init() do { } while (0)
> +#endif
>
> static struct kmem_cache *dnotify_struct_cache __read_mostly;
> static struct kmem_cache *dnotify_mark_cache __read_mostly;
> @@ -386,6 +404,7 @@ static int __init dnotify_init(void)
> dnotify_group = fsnotify_alloc_group(&dnotify_fsnotify_ops);
> if (IS_ERR(dnotify_group))
> panic("unable to allocate fsnotify group for dnotify\n");
> + dnotify_sysctl_init();
> return 0;
> }
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/dnotify.h b/include/linux/dnotify.h
> index 0aad774beaec..4f3b25d47436 100644
> --- a/include/linux/dnotify.h
> +++ b/include/linux/dnotify.h
> @@ -29,7 +29,6 @@ struct dnotify_struct {
> FS_CREATE | FS_DN_RENAME |\
> FS_MOVED_FROM | FS_MOVED_TO)
>
> -extern int dir_notify_enable;
> extern void dnotify_flush(struct file *, fl_owner_t);
> extern int fcntl_dirnotify(int, struct file *, unsigned long);
>
> diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
> index 20326d67b814..7a90a12b9ea4 100644
> --- a/kernel/sysctl.c
> +++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
> @@ -48,7 +48,6 @@
> #include <linux/times.h>
> #include <linux/limits.h>
> #include <linux/dcache.h>
> -#include <linux/dnotify.h>
> #include <linux/syscalls.h>
> #include <linux/vmstat.h>
> #include <linux/nfs_fs.h>
> @@ -3090,15 +3089,6 @@ static struct ctl_table fs_table[] = {
> .proc_handler = proc_dointvec,
> },
> #endif
> -#ifdef CONFIG_DNOTIFY
> - {
> - .procname = "dir-notify-enable",
> - .data = &dir_notify_enable,
> - .maxlen = sizeof(int),
> - .mode = 0644,
> - .proc_handler = proc_dointvec,
> - },
> -#endif
> #ifdef CONFIG_MMU
> #ifdef CONFIG_FILE_LOCKING
> {
> --
> 2.33.0
>
--
Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx>
SUSE Labs, CR