Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756452Ab1BYSxG (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Feb 2011 13:53:06 -0500 Received: from mail-ew0-f46.google.com ([209.85.215.46]:41821 "EHLO mail-ew0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756419Ab1BYSxD (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Feb 2011 13:53:03 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:message-id:x-mailer; b=UH4YtfzHY+oM3VyENs/jfJwJeSR6kpWC2+6KqO5/WP3ue0RBZEMc1d9wmL4ccZfSvX T6jBiYflUYArwjFHxP0EUKQNLFzmQIFTU6234zIn/qCKqlqV5KcaUM9VrGLtKCJ52am7 QyouhmBdAXj72W/1sfIcieqdp2RpfrIqMP7f8= From: Lucian Adrian Grijincu To: "David S. Miller" , Alexey Dobriyan , "Eric W. Biederman" , Octavian Purdila , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: RFC v1: sysctl: add sysctl header cookie, share tables between nets Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 20:52:32 +0200 Message-Id: <1298659961-23863-1-git-send-email-lucian.grijincu@gmail.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.4.rc1.7.g2cf08.dirty Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2889 Lines: 58 This is a new approach to the "share sysctl tables" RFC series I posted earlier this month. In previous patches I proposed deriving 'struct net*' from the parent ctl_entry's ->extra1 field, but that has seen opposition due to mixing in information from the dentry cache/fs layers. In this version, the clt_table_header is extended to hold a cookie at creation time and pass it to the handlers. By default every ctl_table_header that is netns specific will store the 'struct net*' in the cookie. I could go on with the patch series and share other ctl_tables between network namespace in the same manner, but I stopped here to not waste time on a solution that you do not consider applying for reasons I don't see now. If you like this, I'll post a full patch series: * change proc_handler to accept a cookie * change all proc_handler functions in the kernel to accept a cookie * apply sysctl table sharing to other tables. Candidates would be: nf_conntrack_acct_init_sysctl, nf_conntrack_standalone_init_sysctl, unix_sysctl_register, but there may be others I'm not seeing now. This series is against Linus's 2.6.38-rc6 (plus a few other patches). fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c | 11 +++++++- include/linux/sysctl.h | 8 +++++- include/net/ipv6.h | 6 +--- include/net/net_namespace.h | 26 ++++++++++++++++++ kernel/sysctl.c | 12 +++++--- net/core/sysctl_net_core.c | 28 ++----------------- net/ipv4/ip_fragment.c | 34 ++++------------------- net/ipv4/route.c | 36 +++++-------------------- net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c | 53 ++++++------------------------------- net/ipv6/icmp.c | 17 +---------- net/ipv6/reassembly.c | 34 ++++------------------- net/ipv6/route.c | 54 ++++++++++--------------------------- net/ipv6/sysctl_net_ipv6.c | 61 +++++------------------------------------- net/sysctl_net.c | 37 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-- 14 files changed, 143 insertions(+), 274 deletions(-) * [PATCH 1/9] sysctl: add ctl_header_cookie * [PATCH 2/9] sysctl: use ctl_header_cookie in proc_handler * [PATCH 3/9] sysctl: add netns_proc_dointvec and similar handlers * [PATCH 4/9] sysctl: ipv4: ipfrag: share ip4_frags_ns_ctl_table between nets * [PATCH 5/9] sysctl: net: share netns_core_table between nets * [PATCH 6/9] sysctl: route: share ipv4_route_flush_table between nets * [PATCH 7/9] sysctl: ipv4: share ipv4_net_table between nets * [PATCH 8/9] sysctl: ipv6: share ip6_frags_ns_ctl_table between nets * [PATCH 9/9] sysctl: ipv6: share ip6_ctl_table, ipv6_icmp_table and ipv6_route_table between nets -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/