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| author | Wanpeng Li <liwp@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2012-07-31 16:41:52 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2012-07-31 18:42:40 -0700 |
| commit | 3965c9ae47d64aadf6f13b6fcd37767b83c0689a (patch) | |
| tree | 9896fbd841edbaa8e374b593ad0f7b96191cda5d /mm | |
| parent | deaf386ee58d5336bbef8959bf304573afb67c20 (diff) | |
mm: prepare for removal of obsolete /proc/sys/vm/nr_pdflush_threads
Since per-BDI flusher threads were introduced in 2.6, the pdflush
mechanism is not used any more. But the old interface exported through
/proc/sys/vm/nr_pdflush_threads still exists and is obviously useless.
For back-compatibility, printk warning information and return 2 to notify
the users that the interface is removed.
Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <liwp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/backing-dev.c | 20 |
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/backing-dev.c b/mm/backing-dev.c index 3387aea1120..6b4718e2ee3 100644 --- a/mm/backing-dev.c +++ b/mm/backing-dev.c @@ -886,3 +886,23 @@ out: return ret; } EXPORT_SYMBOL(wait_iff_congested); + +int pdflush_proc_obsolete(struct ctl_table *table, int write, + void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos) +{ + char kbuf[] = "0\n"; + + if (*ppos) { + *lenp = 0; + return 0; + } + + if (copy_to_user(buffer, kbuf, sizeof(kbuf))) + return -EFAULT; + printk_once(KERN_WARNING "%s exported in /proc is scheduled for removal\n", + table->procname); + + *lenp = 2; + *ppos += *lenp; + return 2; +} |