Pull sysctl updates from Joel Granados:
- Remove "->procname == NULL" check when iterating through sysctl table
arrays
Removing sentinels in ctl_table arrays reduces the build time size
and runtime memory consumed by ~64 bytes per array. With all
ctl_table sentinels gone, the additional check for ->procname == NULL
that worked in tandem with the ARRAY_SIZE to calculate the size of
the ctl_table arrays is no longer needed and has been removed. The
sysctl register functions now returns an error if a sentinel is used.
- Preparation patches for sysctl constification
Constifying ctl_table structs prevents the modification of
proc_handler function pointers as they would reside in .rodata. The
ctl_table arguments in sysctl utility functions are const qualified
in preparation for a future treewide proc_handler argument
constification commit.
- Misc fixes
Increase robustness of set_ownership by providing sane default
ownership values in case the callee doesn't set them. Bound check
proc_dou8vec_minmax to avoid loading buggy modules and give sysctl
testing module a name to avoid compiler complaints.
* tag 'sysctl-6.11-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sysctl/sysctl:
sysctl: Warn on an empty procname element
sysctl: Remove ctl_table sentinel code comments
sysctl: Remove "child" sysctl code comments
sysctl: Remove superfluous empty allocations from sysctl internals
sysctl: Replace nr_entries with ctl_table_size in new_links
sysctl: Remove check for sentinel element in ctl_table arrays
mm profiling: Remove superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table
locking: Remove superfluous sentinel element from kern_lockdep_table
sysctl: Add module description to sysctl-testing
sysctl: constify ctl_table arguments of utility function
utsname: constify ctl_table arguments of utility function
sysctl: move the extra1/2 boundary check of u8 to sysctl_check_table_array
sysctl: always initialize i_uid/i_gid
This commit is part of a greater effort to remove all empty elements at
the end of the ctl_table arrays (sentinels) which will reduce the
overall build time size of the kernel and run time memory bloat by ~64
bytes per sentinel (further information Link :
https://lore.kernel.org/all/ZO5Yx5JFogGi%2FcBo@bombadil.infradead.org/)
Removed sentinel from memory_allocation_profiling_sysctls
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <j.granados@samsung.com>
The highest memory overhead from memory allocation profiling comes from
page_ext objects. This overhead exists even if the feature is disabled
but compiled-in. To avoid it, introduce an early boot parameter that
prevents page_ext object creation. The new boot parameter is a tri-state
with possible values of 0|1|never. When it is set to "never" the memory
allocation profiling support is disabled, and overhead is minimized
(currently no page_ext objects are allocated, in the future more overhead
might be eliminated). As a result we also lose ability to enable memory
allocation profiling at runtime (because there is no space to store
alloctag references). Runtime sysctrl becomes read-only if the early boot
parameter was set to "never". Note that the default value of this boot
parameter depends on the CONFIG_MEM_ALLOC_PROFILING_ENABLED_BY_DEFAULT
configuration. When CONFIG_MEM_ALLOC_PROFILING_ENABLED_BY_DEFAULT=n the
boot parameter is set to "never", therefore eliminating any overhead.
CONFIG_MEM_ALLOC_PROFILING_ENABLED_BY_DEFAULT=y results in boot parameter
being set to 1 (enabled). This allows distributions to avoid any overhead
by setting CONFIG_MEM_ALLOC_PROFILING_ENABLED_BY_DEFAULT=n config and with
no changes to the kernel command line.
We reuse sysctl.vm.mem_profiling boot parameter name in order to avoid
introducing yet another control. This change turns it into a tri-state
early boot parameter.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240321163705.3067592-16-surenb@google.com
Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Tested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@gmail.com>
Cc: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
Cc: Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@samsung.com>
Cc: Benno Lossin <benno.lossin@proton.me>
Cc: "Björn Roy Baron" <bjorn3_gh@protonmail.com>
Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org>
Cc: Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
Cc: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
Cc: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Wedson Almeida Filho <wedsonaf@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
