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<p><font face="Courier New, Courier, monospace">Drive-by comment: <br>
I see a couple of articles, citing the removal of sysctl
sentinels starting Linux 6.10. Is there any plan to remove this
from everywhere else from the kernel?</font><br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 8/5/2024 11:50, Ashutosh Dixit
wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="" class="moz-quote-pre">An empty sysctl table entry was inadvertently left behind for observation
sysctl. The breaks on 6.11 with the following errors:
[ 219.654850] sysctl table check failed: dev/xe/(null) procname is null
[ 219.654862] sysctl table check failed: dev/xe/(null) No proc_handler
Drop the empty entry.
Fixes: 8169b2097d88 ("drm/xe/uapi: Rename xe perf layer as xe observation layer")
Closes: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/xe/kernel/-/issues/2419">https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/xe/kernel/-/issues/2419</a>
Signed-off-by: Ashutosh Dixit <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:ashutosh.dixit@intel.com"><ashutosh.dixit@intel.com></a>
---
drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_observation.c | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_observation.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_observation.c
index fcb584b42a7d5..a78c92a44ec2d 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_observation.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_observation.c
@@ -66,7 +66,6 @@ static struct ctl_table observation_ctl_table[] = {
.extra1 = SYSCTL_ZERO,
.extra2 = SYSCTL_ONE,
},
- {}
};
/**
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-shekhar</pre>
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