Re: [PATCH 58/59] sysctl: Reimplement the sysctl proc support

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> wrote:

> From: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> - unquoted
> 
> With this change the sysctl inodes can be cached and nothing needs to 
> be done when removing a sysctl table.

your change is now upstream:

  commit 77b14db502cb85a031fe8fde6c85d52f3e0acb63
  Author: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
  Date:   Wed Feb 14 00:34:12 2007 -0800

but it broke the latency tracer in -rt which uses create_proc_entry() to 
attach a custom handler to value changes in preempt_max_latency:

 #define PROCNAME_PML    "sys/kernel/preempt_max_latency"

 static __init int latency_fs_init(void)
 {
         struct proc_dir_entry *entry;

         if (!(entry = create_proc_entry(PROCNAME_PML, 0644, NULL)))
                 printk("latency_fs_init(): can't create %s\n", PROCNAME_PML);

with your change that broke because beyond /proc/sys/ there are no real 
proc entries anymore, there's no de->subdir directory for 
xlate_proc_name() to find. While the latency tracer isnt upstream, this 
change in semantics does not seem to be intended (the changelog is 
certainly silent about it).

	Ingo