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| author | Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org> | 2022-01-21 22:12:48 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2022-01-22 08:33:35 +0200 |
| commit | b1f2aff888af54a057c2c3c0d88a13ef5d37b52a (patch) | |
| tree | 0cde5bf8ba546138b68faad4f3293fe7e97bf38a | |
| parent | 0df8bdd5e3b3e557ce2c2575fce0c64c5dd1045a (diff) | |
| download | linux-b1f2aff888af54a057c2c3c0d88a13ef5d37b52a.tar.bz2 | |
sysctl: share unsigned long const values
Provide a way to share unsigned long values. This will allow others to
not have to re-invent these values.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211124231435.1445213-9-mcgrof@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Antti Palosaari <crope@iki.fi>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Cc: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Cc: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Cc: Douglas Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com>
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Iurii Zaikin <yzaikin@google.com>
Cc: James E.J. Bottomley <jejb@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@inria.fr>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Lukas Middendorf <kernel@tuxforce.de>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark@fasheh.com>
Cc: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Phillip Potter <phil@philpotter.co.uk>
Cc: Qing Wang <wangqing@vivo.com>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
Cc: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>
Cc: Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Cc: Stephen Kitt <steve@sk2.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Xiaoming Ni <nixiaoming@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/sysctl.h | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/sysctl.c | 9 |
3 files changed, 12 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c b/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c index 6bb2d9a3513d..2eb5987091ea 100644 --- a/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c +++ b/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c @@ -29,6 +29,9 @@ static const struct inode_operations proc_sys_dir_operations; const int sysctl_vals[] = { -1, 0, 1, 2, 4, 100, 200, 1000, 3000, INT_MAX }; EXPORT_SYMBOL(sysctl_vals); +const unsigned long sysctl_long_vals[] = { 0, 1, LONG_MAX }; +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sysctl_long_vals); + /* Support for permanently empty directories */ struct ctl_table sysctl_mount_point[] = { diff --git a/include/linux/sysctl.h b/include/linux/sysctl.h index 746c098a6ff5..2de6d20d191b 100644 --- a/include/linux/sysctl.h +++ b/include/linux/sysctl.h @@ -51,6 +51,12 @@ struct ctl_dir; extern const int sysctl_vals[]; +#define SYSCTL_LONG_ZERO ((void *)&sysctl_long_vals[0]) +#define SYSCTL_LONG_ONE ((void *)&sysctl_long_vals[1]) +#define SYSCTL_LONG_MAX ((void *)&sysctl_long_vals[2]) + +extern const unsigned long sysctl_long_vals[]; + typedef int proc_handler(struct ctl_table *ctl, int write, void *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos); diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c index 3e06dafdd2c3..1b8a1cb8aac9 100644 --- a/kernel/sysctl.c +++ b/kernel/sysctl.c @@ -100,9 +100,6 @@ /* Constants used for minimum and maximum */ -static const unsigned long zero_ul; -static const unsigned long one_ul = 1; -static const unsigned long long_max = LONG_MAX; #ifdef CONFIG_PRINTK static const int ten_thousand = 10000; #endif @@ -2513,7 +2510,7 @@ static struct ctl_table vm_table[] = { .maxlen = sizeof(dirty_background_bytes), .mode = 0644, .proc_handler = dirty_background_bytes_handler, - .extra1 = (void *)&one_ul, + .extra1 = SYSCTL_LONG_ONE, }, { .procname = "dirty_ratio", @@ -2931,8 +2928,8 @@ static struct ctl_table fs_table[] = { .maxlen = sizeof(files_stat.max_files), .mode = 0644, .proc_handler = proc_doulongvec_minmax, - .extra1 = (void *)&zero_ul, - .extra2 = (void *)&long_max, + .extra1 = SYSCTL_LONG_ZERO, + .extra2 = SYSCTL_LONG_MAX, }, { .procname = "nr_open", |