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authorWANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com>2011-11-02 13:39:25 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-11-02 16:07:02 -0700
commitc736de60aed869df8a9aba512cdaf89e32545b00 (patch)
tree09397ad20f12fd5d97b1e4e6b46df617b0971982 /Documentation
parentf1ecf06854a66ee663f4d4cf029c78cd62a15e04 (diff)
sysctl: make CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL default to n
When I tried to send a patch to remove it, Andi told me we still need to keep compabitlies for old libc, so we can't remove this completely. Then just make it default to n and remove the doc from feature-removal-schedule.txt. Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com> Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
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@@ -133,41 +133,6 @@ Who: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
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-What: sys_sysctl
-When: September 2010
-Option: CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL
-Why: The same information is available in a more convenient from
- /proc/sys, and none of the sysctl variables appear to be
- important performance wise.
-
- Binary sysctls are a long standing source of subtle kernel
- bugs and security issues.
-
- When I looked several months ago all I could find after
- searching several distributions were 5 user space programs and
- glibc (which falls back to /proc/sys) using this syscall.
-
- The man page for sysctl(2) documents it as unusable for user
- space programs.
-
- sysctl(2) is not generally ABI compatible to a 32bit user
- space application on a 64bit and a 32bit kernel.
-
- For the last several months the policy has been no new binary
- sysctls and no one has put forward an argument to use them.
-
- Binary sysctls issues seem to keep happening appearing so
- properly deprecating them (with a warning to user space) and a
- 2 year grace warning period will mean eventually we can kill
- them and end the pain.
-
- In the mean time individual binary sysctls can be dealt with
- in a piecewise fashion.
-
-Who: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
-
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-
What: /proc/<pid>/oom_adj
When: August 2012
Why: /proc/<pid>/oom_adj allows userspace to influence the oom killer's