From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 88FEA2AD2D; Mon, 22 Apr 2024 14:49:40 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1713797380; cv=none; b=DmBft5u7ny3+FFPhmgN+Q1Ie+w3R0C7niuYKnLH7ndDnEBQI2+ZjYSzoI1q1Bht30LDdvrfWQpwQx3hFgzYS+PGO7y8xRJ2+Q5KJBtfOx6rnHXZyOFnsNyTlrB33CcbeJxgMp7X4+maWf7Lo4aHWOyUy67E5Jp63BxuOlDdYoic= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1713797380; c=relaxed/simple; bh=W1EiwE9ebnO+fWvv7xjX1fGRlVmYlkU71qMkrB1ko1Y=; h=Message-ID:Date:MIME-Version:Subject:To:Cc:References:From: In-Reply-To:Content-Type; b=Nrf0FPV1flPbJcQmc4pESAnC0aH3ja1ocPRn0nG0Dop7ePlRGLXzdhVzxg4bXxi1B+X6N3Z0/8YZ6Qn49OKEUNUdr/Ws5taRcWwpwkEKihxEDYnwtlL3VwGcXHIh08yVP0d+aTgd806D7ztWceqgBnNDqJtxikgHueNnzYit3Qo= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=OUT9a+ux; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="OUT9a+ux" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D7725C113CC; Mon, 22 Apr 2024 14:49:30 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1713797380; bh=W1EiwE9ebnO+fWvv7xjX1fGRlVmYlkU71qMkrB1ko1Y=; h=Date:Subject:To:Cc:References:From:In-Reply-To:From; b=OUT9a+uxzdAupPFPcsZjuKXNDC6WwK74ZB4UV/AWLqjhBNW3o0uQ1u7+sadwpTqMO wkPGem+umIM8vIlJvUCaTORjMhfBU9b3EbXyTwjs3Gx977LBB7enFgfOxLa0gLU6n0 5u6AA5zjHgZraz7iZiVTj8c//mu8FIkZJL4RCAwkgetxRHZLA9tLIIdsVXKHh4waHL WTUse+Fax2pOV1gtMJzeOGvTUErV/6HSsAKluCsa9mkqPyl+I2COgbQtD63kkK3mv+ wJTQniGe9U9dYJx7A5LWK4d3M0agc+/v4k40wTnHS1aur3yWQ22accOgKVP1McrICj ZLBQInAQ4fRzw== Message-ID: <311c8b64-be13-4740-a659-3a14cf68774a@kernel.org> Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2024 16:49:27 +0200 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 00/10] sysctl: Remove sentinel elements from kernel dir To: Konrad Dybcio , Joel Granados , Luis Chamberlain , josh@joshtriplett.org, Kees Cook , Eric Biederman , Iurii Zaikin , Steven Rostedt , Masami Hiramatsu , Mark Rutland , Thomas Gleixner , John Stultz , Stephen Boyd , Andy Lutomirski , Will Drewry , Ingo Molnar , Peter Zijlstra , Juri Lelli , Vincent Guittot , Dietmar Eggemann , Ben Segall , Mel Gorman , Daniel Bristot de Oliveira , Valentin Schneider , Petr Mladek , John Ogness , Sergey Senozhatsky , "Naveen N. Rao" , Anil S Keshavamurthy , "David S. Miller" , Balbir Singh , Alexei Starovoitov , Daniel Borkmann , John Fastabend , Andrii Nakryiko , Martin KaFai Lau , Song Liu , Yonghong Song , KP Singh , Stanislav Fomichev , Hao Luo , Jiri Olsa Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kexec@lists.infradead.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org, bpf@vger.kernel.org, tools@kernel.org References: <20240328-jag-sysctl_remove_empty_elem_kernel-v3-0-285d273912fe@samsung.com> <36a1ea2f-92c2-4183-a892-00c5b48c419b@linaro.org> From: Krzysztof Kozlowski Content-Language: en-US Autocrypt: addr=krzk@kernel.org; keydata= xsFNBFVDQq4BEAC6KeLOfFsAvFMBsrCrJ2bCalhPv5+KQF2PS2+iwZI8BpRZoV+Bd5kWvN79 cFgcqTTuNHjAvxtUG8pQgGTHAObYs6xeYJtjUH0ZX6ndJ33FJYf5V3yXqqjcZ30FgHzJCFUu JMp7PSyMPzpUXfU12yfcRYVEMQrmplNZssmYhiTeVicuOOypWugZKVLGNm0IweVCaZ/DJDIH gNbpvVwjcKYrx85m9cBVEBUGaQP6AT7qlVCkrf50v8bofSIyVa2xmubbAwwFA1oxoOusjPIE J3iadrwpFvsZjF5uHAKS+7wHLoW9hVzOnLbX6ajk5Hf8Pb1m+VH/E8bPBNNYKkfTtypTDUCj NYcd27tjnXfG+SDs/EXNUAIRefCyvaRG7oRYF3Ec+2RgQDRnmmjCjoQNbFrJvJkFHlPeHaeS BosGY+XWKydnmsfY7SSnjAzLUGAFhLd/XDVpb1Een2XucPpKvt9ORF+48gy12FA5GduRLhQU vK4tU7ojoem/G23PcowM1CwPurC8sAVsQb9KmwTGh7rVz3ks3w/zfGBy3+WmLg++C2Wct6nM Pd8/6CBVjEWqD06/RjI2AnjIq5fSEH/BIfXXfC68nMp9BZoy3So4ZsbOlBmtAPvMYX6U8VwD TNeBxJu5Ex0Izf1NV9CzC3nNaFUYOY8KfN01X5SExAoVTr09ewARAQABzSVLcnp5c3p0b2Yg S296bG93c2tpIDxrcnprQGtlcm5lbC5vcmc+wsGVBBMBCgA/AhsDBgsJCAcDAgYVCAIJCgsE FgIDAQIeAQIXgBYhBJvQfg4MUfjVlne3VBuTQ307QWKbBQJgPO8PBQkUX63hAAoJEBuTQ307 QWKbBn8P+QFxwl7pDsAKR1InemMAmuykCHl+XgC0LDqrsWhAH5TYeTVXGSyDsuZjHvj+FRP+ gZaEIYSw2Yf0e91U9HXo3RYhEwSmxUQ4Fjhc9qAwGKVPQf6YuQ5yy6pzI8brcKmHHOGrB3tP /MODPt81M1zpograAC2WTDzkICfHKj8LpXp45PylD99J9q0Y+gb04CG5/wXs+1hJy/dz0tYy iua4nCuSRbxnSHKBS5vvjosWWjWQXsRKd+zzXp6kfRHHpzJkhRwF6ArXi4XnQ+REnoTfM5Fk VmVmSQ3yFKKePEzoIriT1b2sXO0g5QXOAvFqB65LZjXG9jGJoVG6ZJrUV1MVK8vamKoVbUEe 0NlLl/tX96HLowHHoKhxEsbFzGzKiFLh7hyboTpy2whdonkDxpnv/H8wE9M3VW/fPgnL2nPe xaBLqyHxy9hA9JrZvxg3IQ61x7rtBWBUQPmEaK0azW+l3ysiNpBhISkZrsW3ZUdknWu87nh6 eTB7mR7xBcVxnomxWwJI4B0wuMwCPdgbV6YDUKCuSgRMUEiVry10xd9KLypR9Vfyn1AhROrq AubRPVeJBf9zR5UW1trJNfwVt3XmbHX50HCcHdEdCKiT9O+FiEcahIaWh9lihvO0ci0TtVGZ MCEtaCE80Q3Ma9RdHYB3uVF930jwquplFLNF+IBCn5JRzsFNBFVDXDQBEADNkrQYSREUL4D3 Gws46JEoZ9HEQOKtkrwjrzlw/tCmqVzERRPvz2Xg8n7+HRCrgqnodIYoUh5WsU84N03KlLue MNsWLJBvBaubYN4JuJIdRr4dS4oyF1/fQAQPHh8Thpiz0SAZFx6iWKB7Qrz3OrGCjTPcW6ei OMheesVS5hxietSmlin+SilmIAPZHx7n242u6kdHOh+/SyLImKn/dh9RzatVpUKbv34eP1wA GldWsRxbf3WP9pFNObSzI/Bo3kA89Xx2rO2roC+Gq4LeHvo7ptzcLcrqaHUAcZ3CgFG88CnA 6z6lBZn0WyewEcPOPdcUB2Q7D/NiUY+HDiV99rAYPJztjeTrBSTnHeSBPb+qn5ZZGQwIdUW9 YegxWKvXXHTwB5eMzo/RB6vffwqcnHDoe0q7VgzRRZJwpi6aMIXLfeWZ5Wrwaw2zldFuO4Dt 91pFzBSOIpeMtfgb/Pfe/a1WJ/GgaIRIBE+NUqckM+3zJHGmVPqJP/h2Iwv6nw8U+7Yyl6gU BLHFTg2hYnLFJI4Xjg+AX1hHFVKmvl3VBHIsBv0oDcsQWXqY+NaFahT0lRPjYtrTa1v3tem/ JoFzZ4B0p27K+qQCF2R96hVvuEyjzBmdq2esyE6zIqftdo4MOJho8uctOiWbwNNq2U9pPWmu 4vXVFBYIGmpyNPYzRm0QPwARAQABwsF8BBgBCgAmAhsMFiEEm9B+DgxR+NWWd7dUG5NDfTtB YpsFAmA872oFCRRflLYACgkQG5NDfTtBYpvScw/9GrqBrVLuJoJ52qBBKUBDo4E+5fU1bjt0 Gv0nh/hNJuecuRY6aemU6HOPNc2t8QHMSvwbSF+Vp9ZkOvrM36yUOufctoqON+wXrliEY0J4 ksR89ZILRRAold9Mh0YDqEJc1HmuxYLJ7lnbLYH1oui8bLbMBM8S2Uo9RKqV2GROLi44enVt vdrDvo+CxKj2K+d4cleCNiz5qbTxPUW/cgkwG0lJc4I4sso7l4XMDKn95c7JtNsuzqKvhEVS oic5by3fbUnuI0cemeizF4QdtX2uQxrP7RwHFBd+YUia7zCcz0//rv6FZmAxWZGy5arNl6Vm lQqNo7/Poh8WWfRS+xegBxc6hBXahpyUKphAKYkah+m+I0QToCfnGKnPqyYIMDEHCS/RfqA5 t8F+O56+oyLBAeWX7XcmyM6TGeVfb+OZVMJnZzK0s2VYAuI0Rl87FBFYgULdgqKV7R7WHzwD uZwJCLykjad45hsWcOGk3OcaAGQS6NDlfhM6O9aYNwGL6tGt/6BkRikNOs7VDEa4/HlbaSJo 7FgndGw1kWmkeL6oQh7wBvYll2buKod4qYntmNKEicoHGU+x91Gcan8mCoqhJkbqrL7+nXG2 5Q/GS5M9RFWS+nYyJh+c3OcfKqVcZQNANItt7+ULzdNJuhvTRRdC3g9hmCEuNSr+CLMdnRBY fv0= In-Reply-To: <36a1ea2f-92c2-4183-a892-00c5b48c419b@linaro.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 22/04/2024 16:27, Konrad Dybcio wrote: > > > On 3/28/24 16:44, Joel Granados wrote: >> What? >> These commits remove the sentinel element (last empty element) from the >> sysctl arrays of all the files under the "kernel/" directory that use a >> sysctl array for registration. The merging of the preparation patches >> [1] to mainline allows us to remove sentinel elements without changing >> behavior. This is safe because the sysctl registration code >> (register_sysctl() and friends) use the array size in addition to >> checking for a sentinel [2]. > > Hi, > > looks like *this* "patch" made it to the sysctl tree [1], breaking b4 > for everyone else (as there's a "--- b4-submit-tracking ---" magic in > the tree history now) on next-20240422 > > Please drop it (again, I'm only talking about this empty cover letter). Just to clarify, in case it is not obvious: Please *do not merge your own trees* into kernel.org repos. Instead use b4 shazam to pick up entire patchset, even if it is yours. b4 allows to merge/apply also the cover letter, if this is your intention. With b4 shazam you would get proper Link tags and not break everyone's b4 workflow on next. :/ Best regards, Krzysztof