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Patch series "sysctl: add and use base directory declarer and registration helper". In this patch series we start addressing base directories, and so we start with the "fs" sysctls. The end goal is we end up completely moving all "fs" sysctl knobs out from kernel/sysctl. This patch (of 6): Add a set of helpers which can be used to declare and register base directory sysctls on their own. We do this so we can later move each of the base sysctl directories like "fs", "kernel", etc, to their own respective files instead of shoving the declarations and registrations all on kernel/sysctl.c. The lazy approach has caught up and with this, we just end up extending the list of base directories / sysctls on one file and this makes maintenance difficult due to merge conflicts from many developers. The declarations are used first by kernel/sysctl.c for registration its own base which over time we'll try to clean up. It will be used in the next patch to demonstrate how to cleanly deal with base sysctl directories. [mcgrof@kernel.org: null-terminate the ctl_table arrays] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YafJY3rXDYnjK/gs@bombadil.infradead.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211129211943.640266-1-mcgrof@kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211129211943.640266-2-mcgrof@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Iurii Zaikin <yzaikin@google.com> Cc: Xiaoming Ni <nixiaoming@huawei.com> Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Stephen Kitt <steve@sk2.org> Cc: Lukas Middendorf <kernel@tuxforce.de> Cc: Antti Palosaari <crope@iki.fi> Cc: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com> Cc: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com> Cc: "Naveen N. Rao" <naveen.n.rao@linux.ibm.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.