linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: memory-failure: Move memory failure sysctls to its own file

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Date:   Thu, 9 Mar 2023 05:14:41 +0000
From:   HORIGUCHI NAOYA(堀口　直也) 
        <naoya.horiguchi@....com>
To:     Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@...wei.com>
CC:     Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@...wei.com>,
        "linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Iurii Zaikin <yzaikin@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: memory-failure: Move memory failure sysctls to its
 own file

On Thu, Mar 09, 2023 at 12:59:24PM +0800, Kefeng Wang wrote:
> The sysctl_memory_failure_early_kill and memory_failure_recovery
> are only used in memory-failure.c, move them to its own file.

Thank you for the patch.

Could you explain the benefit to move them?
We seem to have many other parameters in kernel/sysctl.c which are used
only in single places, so why do we handle these two differently?

Thanks,
Naoya Horiguchi