Summary
* Move jiffies converters out of kernel/sysctl.c
Moved the jiffies converters into kernel/time/jiffies.c and replaced
the pipe-max-size proc_handler converter with a macro based version.
This is all part of the effort to relocate non-sysctl logic out of
kernel/sysctl.c into more relevant subsystems. No functional changes.
* Generalize proc handler converter creation
Removed duplicated sysctl converter logic by consolidating it in
macros. These are used inside sysctl core as well as in pipe.c and
jiffies.c. Converter kernel and user space pointer args are now
automatically const qualified for the convenience of the caller. No
functional changes.
* Miscellaneous
Fixed kernel-doc format warnings, removed unnecessary __user
qualifiers, and moved the nmi_watchdog sysctl into .rodata.
* Testing
This series was run through sysctl selftests/kunit test suite in
x86_64. It went into linux-next after rc2, giving it a good 4/5 weeks
of testing.
sysctl: Wrap do_proc_douintvec with the public function proc_douintvec_conv
Make do_proc_douintvec static and export proc_douintvec_conv wrapper
function for external use. This is to keep with the design in sysctl.c.
Update fs/pipe.c to use the new public API.
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
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