From: Eric W. Biederman This convters the sysctl ctl_tables to use C99 initializers. While I was looking at it I discovered it was using a portion of the sysctl binary addresses space under CTL_KERN KERN_OSTYPE which was completely inappropriate. So I completely removed all of the sysctl binary names, to remove and avoid the ABI conflict. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman Cc: "Luck, Tony" Cc: Stephane Eranian Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- arch/ia64/kernel/perfmon.c | 56 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 47 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff -puN arch/ia64/kernel/perfmon.c~sysctl-c99-convert-arch-ia64-kernel-perfmon-and-remove-abi-breakage arch/ia64/kernel/perfmon.c --- a/arch/ia64/kernel/perfmon.c~sysctl-c99-convert-arch-ia64-kernel-perfmon-and-remove-abi-breakage +++ a/arch/ia64/kernel/perfmon.c @@ -521,19 +521,57 @@ pfm_sysctl_t pfm_sysctl; EXPORT_SYMBOL(pfm_sysctl); static ctl_table pfm_ctl_table[]={ - {1, "debug", &pfm_sysctl.debug, sizeof(int), 0666, NULL, &proc_dointvec, NULL,}, - {2, "debug_ovfl", &pfm_sysctl.debug_ovfl, sizeof(int), 0666, NULL, &proc_dointvec, NULL,}, - {3, "fastctxsw", &pfm_sysctl.fastctxsw, sizeof(int), 0600, NULL, &proc_dointvec, NULL,}, - {4, "expert_mode", &pfm_sysctl.expert_mode, sizeof(int), 0600, NULL, &proc_dointvec, NULL,}, - { 0, }, + { + .ctl_name = CTL_UNNUMBERED, + .procname = "debug", + .data = &pfm_sysctl.debug, + .maxlen = sizeof(int), + .mode = 0666, + .proc_handler = &proc_dointvec, + }, + { + .ctl_name = CTL_UNNUMBERED, + .procname = "debug_ovfl", + .data = &pfm_sysctl.debug_ovfl, + .maxlen = sizeof(int), + .mode = 0666, + .proc_handler = &proc_dointvec, + }, + { + .ctl_name = CTL_UNNUMBERED, + .procname = "fastctxsw", + .data = &pfm_sysctl.fastctxsw, + .maxlen = sizeof(int), + .mode = 0600, + .proc_handler = &proc_dointvec, + }, + { + .ctl_name = CTL_UNNUMBERED, + .procname = "expert_mode", + .data = &pfm_sysctl.expert_mode, + .maxlen = sizeof(int), + .mode = 0600, + .proc_handler = &proc_dointvec, + }, + {} }; static ctl_table pfm_sysctl_dir[] = { - {1, "perfmon", NULL, 0, 0755, pfm_ctl_table, }, - {0,}, + { + .ctl_name = CTL_UNNUMBERED, + .procname = "perfmon", + .mode = 0755, + .child = pfm_ctl_table, + }, + {} }; static ctl_table pfm_sysctl_root[] = { - {1, "kernel", NULL, 0, 0755, pfm_sysctl_dir, }, - {0,}, + { + .ctl_name = CTL_KERN, + .procname = "kernel", + .mode = 0755, + .child = pfm_sysctl_dir, + }, + {} }; static struct ctl_table_header *pfm_sysctl_header; _