On 5/8/20 1:06 AM, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Thu, 7 May 2020 18:46:24 -0300 "Guilherme G. Piccoli" > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> After a recent change introduced by Vlastimil's series [0], kernel is >> able now to handle sysctl parameters on kernel command line; also, the >> series introduced a simple infrastructure to convert legacy boot >> parameters (that duplicate sysctls) into sysctl aliases. >> >> This patch converts the watchdog parameters softlockup_panic and >> {hard,soft}lockup_all_cpu_backtrace to use the new alias infrastructure. >> It fixes the documentation too, since the alias only accepts values 0 >> or 1, not the full range of integers. We also took the opportunity here >> to improve the documentation of the previously converted hung_task_panic >> (see the patch series [0]) and put the alias table in alphabetical order. > > We have a lot of sysctls. What is the motivation for converting these > particular ones?
It's not converting sysctls, it's converting legacy boot parameters that have a sysctl counterpart. There's not a lot of those, and new ones shouldn't be added with the generic infrastructure in place. I would have converted them myself if I found them :)
