Re: [PATCH v2 5/8] printk: move printk sysctl to printk/sysctl.c

[Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>]

On Fri, Nov 26, 2021 at 01:51:38PM +0100, Petr Mladek wrote:
> On Wed 2021-11-24 15:14:32, Luis Chamberlain wrote:
> > From: Xiaoming Ni <nixiaoming@huawei.com>
> > 
> > The kernel/sysctl.c is a kitchen sink where everyone leaves
> > their dirty dishes, this makes it very difficult to maintain.
> > 
> > To help with this maintenance let's start by moving sysctls to
> > places where they actually belong. The proc sysctl maintainers
> > do not want to know what sysctl knobs you wish to add for your own
> > piece of code, we just care about the core logic.
> > 
> > So move printk sysctl from kernel/sysctl.c to kernel/printk/sysctl.c.
> > Use register_sysctl() to register the sysctl interface.
> > 
> > diff --git a/kernel/printk/Makefile b/kernel/printk/Makefile
> > index d118739874c0..f5b388e810b9 100644
> > --- a/kernel/printk/Makefile
> > +++ b/kernel/printk/Makefile
> > @@ -2,5 +2,8 @@
> >  obj-y	= printk.o
> >  obj-$(CONFIG_PRINTK)	+= printk_safe.o
> >  obj-$(CONFIG_A11Y_BRAILLE_CONSOLE)	+= braille.o
> > -obj-$(CONFIG_PRINTK)	+= printk_ringbuffer.o
> >  obj-$(CONFIG_PRINTK_INDEX)	+= index.o
> > +
> > +obj-$(CONFIG_PRINTK)                 += printk_support.o
> > +printk_support-y	             := printk_ringbuffer.o
> > +printk_support-$(CONFIG_SYSCTL)	     += sysctl.o
> 
> I have never seen this trick. It looks like a dirty hack ;-)

It has been used in mac80211 for over a decade now :) See
net/mac80211/Makefile

> Anyway, I do not see it described in the documentation. I wonder
> if it works only by chance.
> 
> IMHO, a cleaner solution would be to add the following
> into init/Kconfig:
> 
> config BUILD_PRINTK_SYSCTL
> 	bool
> 	default (PRINTK && SYSCTL)
> 
> and then use:
> 
> obj-$(CONFIG_BUILD_PRINTK_SYSCTL)    += sysctl.o

I suppose it is a matter of taste, either way works with me,
but I think less kconfig logic is better here.

> > diff --git a/kernel/printk/sysctl.c b/kernel/printk/sysctl.c
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 000000000000..653ae04aab7f
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/kernel/printk/sysctl.c
> > @@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
> > +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
> > +/*
> > + * sysctl.c: General linux system control interface
> > + */
> > +
> > +#include <linux/sysctl.h>
> > +#include <linux/printk.h>
> > +#include <linux/capability.h>
> > +#include <linux/ratelimit.h>
> > +#include "internal.h"
> > +
> > +static const int ten_thousand = 10000;
> 
> The patch should also remove the variable in kernel/sysctl.c.
> 
> Otherwise, it looks like a really nice clean up.

Ah yes that variable is now unused there. Thanks

  Luis