treewide: const qualify ctl_tables where applicable

Add the const qualifier to all the ctl_tables in the tree except for
watchdog_hardlockup_sysctl, memory_allocation_profiling_sysctls,
loadpin_sysc

treewide: const qualify ctl_tables where applicable

Add the const qualifier to all the ctl_tables in the tree except for
watchdog_hardlockup_sysctl, memory_allocation_profiling_sysctls,
loadpin_sysctl_table and the ones calling register_net_sysctl (./net,
drivers/inifiniband dirs). These are special cases as they use a
registration function with a non-const qualified ctl_table argument or
modify the arrays before passing them on to the registration function.

Constifying ctl_table structs will prevent the modification of
proc_handler function pointers as the arrays would reside in .rodata.
This is made possible after commit 78eb4ea25cd5 ("sysctl: treewide:
constify the ctl_table argument of proc_handlers") constified all the
proc_handlers.

Created this by running an spatch followed by a sed command:
Spatch:
virtual patch

@
depends on !(file in "net")
disable optional_qualifier
@

identifier table_name != {
watchdog_hardlockup_sysctl,
iwcm_ctl_table,
ucma_ctl_table,
memory_allocation_profiling_sysctls,
loadpin_sysctl_table
};
@@

+ const
struct ctl_table table_name [] = { ... };

sed:
sed --in-place \
-e "s/struct ctl_table .table = &uts_kern/const struct ctl_table *table = \&uts_kern/" \
kernel/utsname_sysctl.c

Reviewed-by: Song Liu <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <[email protected]> # for kernel/trace/
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <[email protected]> # SCSI
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <[email protected]> # xfs
Acked-by: Jani Nikula <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Corey Minyard <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Bill O'Donnell <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Baoquan He <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Ashutosh Dixit <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Anna Schumaker <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <[email protected]>

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arm: Remove now superfluous sentinel elem from ctl_table arrays

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) whic

arm: Remove now superfluous sentinel elem from ctl_table arrays

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%[email protected]/)

Removed the sentinel as well as the explicit size from ctl_isa_vars. The
size is redundant as the initialization sets it. Changed
insn_emulation->sysctl from a 2 element array of struct ctl_table to a
simple struct. This has no consequence for the sysctl registration as it
is forwarded as a pointer. Removed sentinel from sve_defatul_vl_table,
sme_default_vl_table, tagged_addr_sysctl_table and
armv8_pmu_sysctl_table.

This removal is safe because register_sysctl_sz and register_sysctl use
the array size in addition to checking for the sentinel.

Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <[email protected]>

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arm: simplify two-level sysctl registration for ctl_isa_vars

There is no need to declare two tables to just create directories,
this can be easily be done with a prefix path with register_sysctl().

arm: simplify two-level sysctl registration for ctl_isa_vars

There is no need to declare two tables to just create directories,
this can be easily be done with a prefix path with register_sysctl().

Simplify this registration.

Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <[email protected]>

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treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 152

Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
it under the terms of th

treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 152

Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by
the free software foundation either version 2 of the license or at
your option any later version

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

GPL-2.0-or-later

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 3029 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

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arm: convert use of typedef ctl_table to struct ctl_table

This typedef is unnecessary and should just be removed.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@lin

arm: convert use of typedef ctl_table to struct ctl_table

This typedef is unnecessary and should just be removed.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

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sysctl: Drop & in front of every proc_handler.

For consistency drop & in front of every proc_handler. Explicity
taking the address is unnecessary and it prevents optimizations
like stubbing the pro

sysctl: Drop & in front of every proc_handler.

For consistency drop & in front of every proc_handler. Explicity
taking the address is unnecessary and it prevents optimizations
like stubbing the proc_handlers to NULL.

Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Joe Perches <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <[email protected]>

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sysctl arm: Remove binary sysctl support

Now that sys_sysctl is a generic wrapper around /proc/sys .ctl_name
and .strategy members of sysctl tables are dead code. Remove them.

Remove a smattering

sysctl arm: Remove binary sysctl support

Now that sys_sysctl is a generic wrapper around /proc/sys .ctl_name
and .strategy members of sysctl tables are dead code. Remove them.

Remove a smattering of ctl_names used in sysctl paths,
and kill the ctl_names in the recently added mach-bcmring.

mach-bcmring never should have had sysctl entries with
.ctl_name set. The binary sysctl interface has been frozen
for a long time before that code was merged, to prevent
probmes with conflicts and lack of testing. The sysctl_check
code would have caught this if anyone had ever tested it that way.
So I have simply dropped the binary sysctl support instead of
adding another compat entry into sysctl_binary.c. Going through
/proc/sys/reboot/warm will still work.

Cc: Leo Chen <[email protected]>
Cc: Russell King <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <[email protected]>

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[ARM] arch/arm/kernel/isa.c: missing definition of register_isa_ports

arch/arm/kernel/isa.c should include <linux/io.h> to get the
definition of register_io_ports() at-least when compiling for
footb

[ARM] arch/arm/kernel/isa.c: missing definition of register_isa_ports

arch/arm/kernel/isa.c should include <linux/io.h> to get the
definition of register_io_ports() at-least when compiling for
footbridge to fix the following sparse warning:

isa.c:68:1: warning: symbol 'register_isa_ports' was not declared.

Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <[email protected]>

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[PATCH] sysctl: remove insert_at_head from register_sysctl

The semantic effect of insert_at_head is that it would allow new registered
sysctl entries to override existing sysctl entries of the same

[PATCH] sysctl: remove insert_at_head from register_sysctl

The semantic effect of insert_at_head is that it would allow new registered
sysctl entries to override existing sysctl entries of the same name. Which is
pain for caching and the proc interface never implemented.

I have done an audit and discovered that none of the current users of
register_sysctl care as (excpet for directories) they do not register
duplicate sysctl entries.

So this patch simply removes the support for overriding existing entries in
the sys_sysctl interface since no one uses it or cares and it makes future
enhancments harder.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <[email protected]>
Cc: Russell King <[email protected]>
Cc: David Howells <[email protected]>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <[email protected]>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <[email protected]>
Cc: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Cc: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
Cc: Corey Minyard <[email protected]>
Cc: Neil Brown <[email protected]>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <[email protected]>
Cc: James Bottomley <[email protected]>
Cc: Jan Kara <[email protected]>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <[email protected]>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <[email protected]>
Cc: David Chinner <[email protected]>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <[email protected]>
Cc: Patrick McHardy <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

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[ARM] Arrange for isa.c to use named initialisers

Convert isa.c (the glibc interface for emulating ISA IO) to use
named initialisers.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <[email protected]>

Linux-2.6.12-rc2

Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in

Linux-2.6.12-rc2

Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!

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