Vlastimil Babka 0a477e1ae2 kernel/sysctl: support handling command line aliases
We can now handle sysctl parameters on kernel command line, but
historically some parameters introduced their own command line
equivalent, which we don't want to remove for compatibility reasons.

We can, however, convert them to the generic infrastructure with a table
translating the legacy command line parameters to their sysctl names,
and removing the one-off param handlers.

This patch adds the support and makes the first conversion to
demonstrate it, on the (deprecated) numa_zonelist_order parameter.

Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: "Eric W . Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: "Guilherme G . Piccoli" <gpiccoli@canonical.com>
Cc: Iurii Zaikin <yzaikin@google.com>
Cc: Ivan Teterevkov <ivan.teterevkov@nutanix.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200427180433.7029-3-vbabka@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-06-08 11:05:56 -07:00
2020-06-08 11:05:56 -07:00

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