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[PATCH 29/59] sysctl: C99 convert arch/ia64/kernel/perfmon and remove ABI breakage [message #17178 is a reply to message #17149] Tue, 16 January 2007 16:39 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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From: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> - unquoted

This convers the sysctl ctl_tables to use C99 initializers.
While I was looking at it I discovered it was using a portion of
the sysctl binary addresses space under CTL_KERN KERN_OSTYPE
which was completely inappropriate.  So I completely removed
all of the sysctl binary names, to remove and avoid the ABI conflict.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
---
 arch/ia64/kernel/perfmon.c |   56 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
 1 files changed, 47 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/ia64/kernel/perfmon.c b/arch/ia64/kernel/perfmon.c
index aa94f60..8c679ab 100644
--- a/arch/ia64/kernel/perfmon.c
+++ b/arch/ia64/kernel/perfmon.c
@@ -521,19 +521,57 @@ pfm_sysctl_t pfm_sysctl;
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(pfm_sysctl);
 
 static ctl_table pfm_ctl_table[]={
-	{1, "debug", &pfm_sysctl.debug, sizeof(int), 0666, NULL, &proc_dointvec, NULL,},
-	{2, "debug_ovfl", &pfm_sysctl.debug_ovfl, sizeof(int), 0666, NULL, &proc_dointvec, NULL,},
-	{3, "fastctxsw", &pfm_sysctl.fastctxsw, sizeof(int), 0600, NULL, &proc_dointvec, NULL,},
-	{4, "expert_mode", &pfm_sysctl.expert_mode, sizeof(int), 0600, NULL, &proc_dointvec, NULL,},
-	{ 0, },
+	{
+		.ctl_name	= CTL_UNNUMBERED,
+		.procname	= "debug",
+		.data		= &pfm_sysctl.debug,
+		.maxlen		= sizeof(int),
+		.mode		= 0666,
+		.proc_handler	= &proc_dointvec,
+	},
+	{
+		.ctl_name	= CTL_UNNUMBERED,
+		.procname	= "debug_ovfl",
+		.data		= &pfm_sysctl.debug_ovfl,
+		.maxlen		= sizeof(int),
+		.mode		= 0666,
+		.proc_handler	= &proc_dointvec,
+	},
+	{
+		.ctl_name	= CTL_UNNUMBERED,
+		.procname	= "fastctxsw",
+		.data		= &pfm_sysctl.fastctxsw,
+		.maxlen		= sizeof(int),
+		.mode		= 0600,
+		.proc_handler	=  &proc_dointvec,
+	},
+	{
+		.ctl_name	= CTL_UNNUMBERED,
+		.procname	= "expert_mode",
+		.data		= &pfm_sysctl.expert_mode,
+		.maxlen		= sizeof(int),
+		.mode		= 0600,
+		.proc_handler	= &proc_dointvec,
+	},
+	{}
 };
 static ctl_table pfm_sysctl_dir[] = {
-	{1, "perfmon", NULL, 0, 0755, pfm_ctl_table, },
- 	{0,},
+	{
+		.ctl_name	= CTL_UNNUMBERED,
+		.procname	= "perfmon",
+		.mode		= 0755,
+		.child		= pfm_ctl_table,
+	},
+ 	{}
 };
 static ctl_table pfm_sysctl_root[] = {
-	{1, "kernel", NULL, 0, 0755, pfm_sysctl_dir, },
- 	{0,},
+	{
+		.ctl_name	= CTL_KERN,
+		.procname	= "kernel",
+		.mode		= 0755,
+		.child		= pfm_sysctl_dir,
+	},
+ 	{}
 };
 static struct ctl_table_header *pfm_sysctl_header;
 
-- 
1.4.4.1.g278f

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