kernel_optimize_test/fs
Pavel Emelyanov 7708bfb1c8 sysctl: merge equal proc_sys_read and proc_sys_write
Many (most of) sysctls do not have a per-container sense.  E.g.
kernel.print_fatal_signals, vm.panic_on_oom, net.core.netdev_budget and so on
and so forth.  Besides, tuning then from inside a container is not even
secure.  On the other hand, hiding them completely from the container's tasks
sometimes causes user-space to stop working.

When developing net sysctl, the common practice was to duplicate a table and
drop the write bits in table->mode, but this approach was not very elegant,
lead to excessive memory consumption and was not suitable in general.

Here's the alternative solution.  To facilitate the per-container sysctls
ctl_table_root-s were introduced.  Each root contains a list of
ctl_table_header-s that are visible to different namespaces.  The idea of this
set is to add the permissions() callback on the ctl_table_root to allow ctl
root limit permissions to the same ctl_table-s.

The main user of this functionality is the net-namespaces code, but later this
will (should) be used by more and more namespaces, containers and control
groups.

Actually, this idea's core is in a single hunk in the third patch.  First two
patches are cleanups for sysctl code, while the third one mostly extends the
arguments set of some sysctl functions.

This patch:

These ->read and ->write callbacks act in a very similar way, so merge these
paths to reduce the number of places to patch later and shrink the .text size
(a bit).

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Acked-by: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
Cc: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-29 08:06:23 -07:00
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9p [PATCH] restore sane ->umount_begin() API 2008-04-25 09:23:25 -04:00
adfs adfs: work around bogus sparse warning 2008-04-29 08:05:59 -07:00
affs fs/affs/file.c: use BUG_ON 2008-04-29 08:06:02 -07:00
afs afs: use non-racy method for proc entries creation 2008-04-29 08:06:20 -07:00
autofs
autofs4 autofs4: fix sparse warning in root.c 2008-04-29 08:06:01 -07:00
befs befs: fix sparse warning in linuxvfs.c 2008-04-29 08:05:59 -07:00
bfs
cifs proc: remove proc_root_fs 2008-04-29 08:06:18 -07:00
coda codafs: fix build warning 2008-04-29 08:06:04 -07:00
configfs
cramfs fs: Remove unnecessary inclusions of asm/semaphore.h 2008-04-18 22:16:44 -04:00
debugfs
devpts
dlm Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/teigland/dlm 2008-04-22 13:44:23 -07:00
ecryptfs eCryptfs: protect crypt_stat->flags in ecryptfs_open() 2008-04-29 08:06:07 -07:00
efs efs: update error msg to not refer to deleted read_inode() 2008-04-02 15:28:19 -07:00
exportfs
ext2 ext2: retry block allocation if new blocks are allocated from system zone 2008-04-28 08:58:43 -07:00
ext3 ext3: replace remaining __FUNCTION__ occurrences 2008-04-28 08:58:45 -07:00
ext4 ext4: use non-racy method for proc entries creation 2008-04-29 08:06:20 -07:00
fat fatfs: fix build warning with 64k PAGE_SIZE 2008-04-28 08:58:47 -07:00
freevxfs fs/freevxfs/: proper externs 2008-04-29 08:06:00 -07:00
fuse [PATCH] restore sane ->umount_begin() API 2008-04-25 09:23:25 -04:00
gfs2 mm: remove nopage 2008-04-28 08:58:18 -07:00
hfs hfs: handle match_strdup failure 2008-04-29 08:06:01 -07:00
hfsplus hfsplus: handle match_strdup failure 2008-04-29 08:06:02 -07:00
hostfs
hpfs
hppfs
hugetlbfs mempolicy: use struct mempolicy pointer in shmem_sb_info 2008-04-28 08:58:25 -07:00
isofs zisofs: fix readpage() outside i_size 2008-03-19 18:53:36 -07:00
jbd jbd: replace remaining __FUNCTION__ occurrences 2008-04-28 08:58:45 -07:00
jbd2 jbd2: use non-racy method for proc entries creation 2008-04-29 08:06:20 -07:00
jffs2 [JFFS2] Introduce dbg_readinode2 log level, use it to shut read_dnode() up 2008-04-23 16:43:15 +01:00
jfs proc: remove proc_root_fs 2008-04-29 08:06:18 -07:00
lockd locks: don't call ->copy_lock methods on return of conflicting locks 2008-04-25 13:00:11 -04:00
minix
msdos fat: fat_notify_change() and check_mode() cleanup 2008-04-28 08:58:47 -07:00
ncpfs ncpfs: fix sparse warning in ncpsign_kernel.c 2008-04-28 08:58:29 -07:00
nfs nfs: use proc_create to setup de->proc_fops 2008-04-29 08:06:20 -07:00
nfs_common
nfsd nfsd: use proc_create to setup de->proc_fops 2008-04-29 08:06:20 -07:00
nls
ntfs
ocfs2 [PATCH] r/o bind mounts: elevate write count for ioctls() 2008-04-19 00:29:24 -04:00
openpromfs
partitions fat: detect media without partition table correctly 2008-04-28 08:58:47 -07:00
proc sysctl: merge equal proc_sys_read and proc_sys_write 2008-04-29 08:06:23 -07:00
qnx4
ramfs fs/ramfs/ extern cleanup 2008-04-29 08:06:00 -07:00
reiserfs reiserfs: use non-racy method for proc entries creation 2008-04-29 08:06:20 -07:00
romfs
smbfs NULL noise: fs/*, mm/*, kernel/* 2008-03-30 14:18:41 -07:00
sysfs [SCSI] sysfs: make group is_valid return a mode_t 2008-04-22 15:16:31 -05:00
sysv
udf udf: fix sparse warning in namei.c 2008-04-28 08:58:46 -07:00
ufs ufs: replace __inline with inline 2008-04-28 08:58:45 -07:00
vfat fat: use __getname() 2008-04-28 08:58:47 -07:00
xfs Merge branch 'semaphore' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/willy/misc 2008-04-21 15:41:27 -07:00
aio.c fs/aio.c: make 3 functions static 2008-04-29 08:06:00 -07:00
anon_inodes.c
attr.c
bad_inode.c
binfmt_aout.c fs/binfmt_aout.c: use printk_ratelimit() 2008-04-29 08:06:04 -07:00
binfmt_elf_fdpic.c fdpic: check that the size returned by kernel_read() is what we asked for 2008-04-29 08:06:05 -07:00
binfmt_elf.c elf: fix shadowed variables in fs/binfmt_elf.c 2008-04-29 08:06:16 -07:00
binfmt_em86.c binfmt_misc.c: avoid potential kernel stack overflow 2008-04-29 08:06:04 -07:00
binfmt_flat.c procfs task exe symlink 2008-04-29 08:06:17 -07:00
binfmt_misc.c binfmt_misc.c: avoid potential kernel stack overflow 2008-04-29 08:06:04 -07:00
binfmt_script.c binfmt_misc.c: avoid potential kernel stack overflow 2008-04-29 08:06:04 -07:00
binfmt_som.c [PATCH] sanitize handling of shared descriptor tables in failing execve() 2008-04-25 09:23:53 -04:00
bio.c block: convert bio_copy_user to bio_copy_user_iov 2008-04-21 09:50:08 +02:00
block_dev.c
buffer.c make fs/buffer.c:cont_expand_zero() static 2008-04-29 08:06:01 -07:00
char_dev.c fs: remove unused fops from struct char_device_struct 2008-04-29 08:06:01 -07:00
compat_binfmt_elf.c
compat_ioctl.c
compat.c
dcache.c [patch 2/7] vfs: mountinfo: add seq_file_root() 2008-04-23 00:04:38 -04:00
dcookies.c
direct-io.c
dnotify.c
dquot.c quota: quota core changes for quotaon on remount 2008-04-28 08:58:33 -07:00
drop_caches.c vfs: skip inodes without pages to free in drop_pagecache_sb() 2008-04-29 08:06:05 -07:00
eventfd.c
eventpoll.c epoll: avoid kmemcheck warning 2008-04-29 08:05:59 -07:00
exec.c procfs task exe symlink 2008-04-29 08:06:17 -07:00
fcntl.c [PATCH] sanitize locate_fd() 2008-04-25 09:24:05 -04:00
fifo.c
file_table.c [PATCH] r/o bind mounts: debugging for missed calls 2008-04-19 00:29:28 -04:00
file.c
filesystems.c
fs-writeback.c fs/fs-writeback.c: make 2 functions static 2008-04-29 08:06:00 -07:00
generic_acl.c
inode.c fs/inode.c: use hlist_for_each_entry() 2008-04-29 08:06:06 -07:00
inotify_user.c
inotify.c
internal.h [PATCH] move a bunch of declarations to fs/internal.h 2008-04-21 23:11:01 -04:00
ioctl.c make vfs_ioctl() static 2008-04-29 08:06:00 -07:00
ioprio.c
Kconfig Merge git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6 2008-04-24 11:46:16 -07:00
Kconfig.binfmt make BINFMT_FLAT a bool 2008-04-29 08:06:01 -07:00
libfs.c
locks.c Export __locks_copy_lock() so modular lockd builds 2008-04-25 15:49:46 -07:00
Makefile
mbcache.c vfs: fix possible deadlock in ext2, ext3, ext4 when using xattrs 2008-04-15 19:35:41 -07:00
mpage.c
namei.c cgroups: implement device whitelist 2008-04-29 08:06:09 -07:00
namespace.c vfs: remove lives_below_in_same_fs() 2008-04-29 08:06:06 -07:00
nfsctl.c
no-block.c
open.c xip: support non-struct page backed memory 2008-04-28 08:58:23 -07:00
pipe.c [PATCH] double-free of inode on alloc_file() failure exit in create_write_pipe() 2008-04-22 19:54:57 -04:00
pnode.c [patch 7/7] vfs: mountinfo: show dominating group id 2008-04-23 00:05:09 -04:00
pnode.h [patch 7/7] vfs: mountinfo: show dominating group id 2008-04-23 00:05:09 -04:00
posix_acl.c
quota_v1.c quota: do not allow setting of quota limits to too high values 2008-04-28 08:58:32 -07:00
quota_v2.c quota: do not allow setting of quota limits to too high values 2008-04-28 08:58:32 -07:00
quota.c quota: quota core changes for quotaon on remount 2008-04-28 08:58:33 -07:00
read_write.c fs: use loff_t type instead of long long 2008-04-22 15:17:11 -07:00
read_write.h
readdir.c
select.c trivial: small cleanups 2008-04-21 22:15:06 +00:00
seq_file.c [patch 2/7] vfs: mountinfo: add seq_file_root() 2008-04-23 00:04:38 -04:00
signalfd.c signalfd: fix for incorrect SI_QUEUE user data reporting 2008-04-11 08:06:44 -07:00
splice.c splice: fix infinite loop in generic_file_splice_read() 2008-04-10 08:24:25 +02:00
stack.c
stat.c
super.c make __put_super() static 2008-04-29 08:06:00 -07:00
sync.c vfs: fix unconditional write_super() call in file_fsync() 2008-04-29 08:06:06 -07:00
timerfd.c fs/timerfd.c should #include <linux/syscalls.h> 2008-04-29 08:06:01 -07:00
utimes.c [PATCH] r/o bind mounts: elevate write count for do_utimes() 2008-04-19 00:29:24 -04:00
xattr_acl.c
xattr.c xattr: add missing consts to function arguments 2008-04-29 08:06:06 -07:00