On Wed, Sep 06, 2023 at 11:58:47PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Dave Hansen <dave.han...@intel.com> wrote: > > > On 9/6/23 03:03, Joel Granados via B4 Relay wrote: > > > This commit comes at the tail end of a greater effort to remove the > > > 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%2f...@bombadil.infradead.org/) > > > > > > Remove sentinel element from sld_sysctl and itmt_kern_table. > > > > There's a *LOT* of content to read for a reviewer to figure out what's > > going on here between all the links. I would have appreciated one more > > sentence here, maybe: > > > > This is now safe because the sysctl registration code > > (register_sysctl()) implicitly uses ARRAY_SIZE() in addition > > to checking for a sentinel. > > > > That needs to be more prominent _somewhere_. Maybe here, or maybe in > > the cover letter, but _somewhere_. > > > > That said, feel free to add this to the two x86 patches: > > > > Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.han...@linux.intel.com> # for x86 > > Absolutely needs to be in the title as well, something like: > > arch/x86: Remove now superfluous sentinel elem from ctl_table arrays Done. Will wait to see if other ppl have more comments to send out V2
Thx. > > With that propagated into the whole series: > > Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org> > > Thanks, > > Ingo -- Joel Granados
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