On Mon, Jul 31, 2023 at 01:50:40PM -0700, Luis Chamberlain wrote: > On Mon, Jul 31, 2023 at 09:17:14AM +0200, Joel Granados wrote: > > Why? > > It would be easier to read if the what went before the why. haha. I totally misunderstood you in lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected] I thought you meant to put the why first. I'll switch it back to having the what first for V3
> > > This is a preparation patch set that will make it easier for us to apply > > subsequent patches that will remove the sentinel element (last empty > > element) > > in the ctl_table arrays. > > > > In itself, it does not remove any sentinels but it is needed to bring all > > the > > advantages of the removal to fruition which is to help reduce the overall > > build > > time size of the kernel and run time memory bloat by about ~64 bytes per > > sentinel. > > s/sentinel/declared ctl array > > Because the you're suggesting we want to remove the sentinel but we > want to help the patch reviewer know that a sentil is required per > declared ctl array. Ack > > You can also mention here briefly that this helps ensure that future moves of > sysctl arrays out from kernel/sysctl.c to their own subsystem won't > penalize in enlarging the kernel build size or run time memory consumption. I worked it in Thx for the review > > Thanks for spinning this up again! > > Luis -- Joel Granados
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