From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com (us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com [170.10.133.124]) (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 AE9A936F91B for ; Thu, 6 Aug 2026 18:04:40 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=170.10.133.124 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1786039482; cv=none; b=ExEtzsJn3d5NoJP7SG9zq+5O47Qt0oF/sBoQl5juLdvlP+l6M5ti8C/1bqbM7ipCwsvk+khGjXVodG1bUl9UWZz6U2YIEVLzUSnyt/yJ28dCFmt9x5Fd0pG5Ym/k71q2i2FC5+We7qKnQc84c1na4SUBc09//1jE3l9sA738HNg= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1786039482; c=relaxed/simple; bh=vPvaHwcu6FAmQu9hdrB/0LcbG0V+Nli8cg+nIZTKTD0=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=pWIwv+z5jK6daurMAMI9gOFqR88k/QvoLeSd0seROnKhGKWFiyDTf1mBN5edrjFzHvlFeFMo8U9p5Why4hZNOImfkJZ1SBjCec+A2YXALs7qS/zKlIxVGMxwZVY63QE2qTEH8cUusp68IK0Xyz5AYbZRWR7lfQr6vk41khMYIF4= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=quarantine dis=none) header.from=redhat.com; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=redhat.com; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=redhat.com header.i=@redhat.com header.b=bIj7O1Lj; arc=none smtp.client-ip=170.10.133.124 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=quarantine dis=none) header.from=redhat.com Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=redhat.com Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=redhat.com header.i=@redhat.com header.b="bIj7O1Lj" DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=redhat.com; s=mimecast20190719; t=1786039479; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=UdWNLqxBTwuE6w10Ve999INMwLQmIiCcOtzwbxqd7dc=; b=bIj7O1LjRcV2oCa2EEo08B/M91Q3GA69PkSwG3oxW4w1IqL2UjT+2VJfXOxNpCdawD83xF 9w571vjJ63fwGmoHCiP5fxQMI27/06yNbOsa4acHqfdkVygzQYFzzJicQ+jTBmXBYXTKsv 0E6XfP5fONBdSZqf0/9sUivhuSqd27E= Received: from mx-prod-mc-01.mail-002.prod.us-west-2.aws.redhat.com (ec2-54-186-198-63.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com [54.186.198.63]) by relay.mimecast.com with ESMTP with STARTTLS (version=TLSv1.3, cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) id us-mta-216-0fYC2DPjNy2QV6YK08rhMA-1; Thu, 06 Aug 2026 14:04:34 -0400 X-MC-Unique: 0fYC2DPjNy2QV6YK08rhMA-1 X-Mimecast-MFC-AGG-ID: 0fYC2DPjNy2QV6YK08rhMA_1786039473 Received: from mx-prod-int-08.mail-002.prod.us-west-2.aws.redhat.com (mx-prod-int-08.mail-002.prod.us-west-2.aws.redhat.com [10.30.177.111]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by mx-prod-mc-01.mail-002.prod.us-west-2.aws.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C7E791956096; Thu, 6 Aug 2026 18:04:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fedora (unknown [10.44.32.54]) by mx-prod-int-08.mail-002.prod.us-west-2.aws.redhat.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 21D20180034C; Thu, 6 Aug 2026 18:04:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fedora (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1000 oleg@redhat.com; Thu, 6 Aug 2026 20:04:32 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2026 20:04:28 +0200 From: Oleg Nesterov To: Joel Granados Cc: Andrew Morton , Mark Brown , Luis Chamberlain , Kees Cook , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linux Next Mailing List Subject: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the sysctl tree with the mm-nonmm-unstable tree Message-ID: References: <20260728134755.501c6ac650c7a3868ae00614@linux-foundation.org> <20260804131407.40a4c72c38c482718894dd9a@linux-foundation.org> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 3.4.1 on 10.30.177.111 Joel, et al, First of all, sorry for the hassle caused by my patches ;) On 08/05, Joel Granados wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 04, 2026 at 01:14:07PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > How about I remove > > > > sysctl: move the "cad_pid" entry from pid_table[] to kern_reboot_table[] > > https://lore.kernel.org/al4C572uhLdBvyzH@redhat.com > > > > and > > > > sysctl: remove CONFIG_PROC_SYSCTL, it just mirrors CONFIG_SYSCTL > > https://lore.kernel.org/amdveg1m4E4uQlGv@redhat.com > > > > from mm.git then forget all about them ;) > > Works for me. I had already picked up the first, I'll add the second to > sysctl-next and they will go upstream through the sysctl tree. >From [PATCH -mm v2 0/1] sysctl: remove CONFIG_PROC_SYSCTL, it just mirrors CONFIG_SYSCTL If this patch is accepted, I'll send a couple of followup cleanups: kernel/sysctl.c: collapse the now-identical CONFIG_SYSCTL nesting drivers/parport/procfs.c, fs/dcache.c, and fs/file_table.c: drop the CONFIG_PROC_FS checks, now it is clear that CONFIG_SYSCTL depends on it Now that I see both patches in https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joel.granados/linux.git/log/?h=jag/sysctl let me ask.. Can I send these (minor) cleanups based on sysctl-next to you right now (before I forget it ;) ? Or it would be better to do this later, after they go upstream? Oleg.