linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/5] kernel/lockdep: move lockdep sysctls to its own file

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Date:   Fri, 18 Feb 2022 10:33:05 -0800
From:   Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>
To:     tangmeng <tangmeng@...ontech.com>,
        zhanglianjie <zhanglianjie@...ontech.com>, nizhen@...ontech.com,
        Xiaoming Ni <nixiaoming@...wei.com>
Cc:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org, keescook@...omium.org,
        yzaikin@...gle.com, peterz@...radead.org, mingo@...hat.com,
        will@...nel.org, longman@...hat.com, boqun.feng@...il.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] kernel/lockdep: move lockdep sysctls to its own file

On Fri, Feb 18, 2022 at 06:58:57PM +0800, tangmeng wrote:
> 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.
> 
> All filesystem syctls now get reviewed by fs folks. This commit
> follows the commit of fs, move the prove_locking and lock_stat sysctls
> to its own file, kernel/lockdep.c.
> 
> Signed-off-by: tangmeng <tangmeng@...ontech.com>

Thanks!

Queued on to the new sysctl-next [0] please use that tree for further sysctl
changes. And please Cc zhanglianjie and nizhen and Xiaoming Ni on future
changes as well.

[0] git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux.git sysctl-next

  Luis