sysctl: stop exporting register_sysctl_table
authorJoel Granados <j.granados@samsung.com>
Tue, 23 May 2023 12:22:18 +0000 (14:22 +0200)
committerLuis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Wed, 24 May 2023 04:43:26 +0000 (21:43 -0700)
commit19c4e618a1bc3d0cad1f04c857be8076cb05bbb2
treeb4f95a096090359a62d7d681d05ed15bfe3a4572
parent9ad0a4e7c2dd101be78e8621c204cec742ee1ce7
sysctl: stop exporting register_sysctl_table

We make register_sysctl_table static because the only function calling
it is in fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c (__register_sysctl_base). We remove it
from the sysctl.h header and modify the documentation in both the header
and proc_sysctl.c files to mention "register_sysctl" instead of
"register_sysctl_table".

This plus the commits that remove register_sysctl_table from parport
save 217 bytes:

./scripts/bloat-o-meter .bsysctl/vmlinux.old .bsysctl/vmlinux.new
add/remove: 0/1 grow/shrink: 5/1 up/down: 458/-675 (-217)
Function                                     old     new   delta
__register_sysctl_base                         8     286    +278
parport_proc_register                        268     379    +111
parport_device_proc_register                 195     247     +52
kzalloc.constprop                            598     608     +10
parport_default_proc_register                 62      69      +7
register_sysctl_table                        291       -    -291
parport_sysctl_template                     1288     904    -384
Total: Before=8603076, After=8602859, chg -0.00%

Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <j.granados@samsung.com>
Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c
include/linux/sysctl.h