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authorJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>2017-09-30 23:39:05 -0600
committerJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>2017-10-04 11:24:16 -0600
commitb35bd0d9f8a8ea17aae40893e18274d191a2d2c5 (patch)
tree2bb61e50c89d0c96d393b9c0e6aa2e60d3f00304 /kernel/sysctl.c
parent85009b4f5f0399669a44f07cb9a5622c0e71d419 (diff)
downloadlinux-b35bd0d9f8a8ea17aae40893e18274d191a2d2c5.tar.gz
sysctl: remove /proc/sys/vm/nr_pdflush_threads
This tunable has been obsolete since 2.6.32, and writes to the
file have been failing and complaining in dmesg since then:

nr_pdflush_threads exported in /proc is scheduled for removal

That was 8 years ago. Remove the file ABI obsolete notice, and
the sysfs file.

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/sysctl.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sysctl.c5
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index 6648fbbb8157..a5dd8d82c253 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -1345,11 +1345,6 @@ static struct ctl_table vm_table[] = {
 		.extra1		= &zero,
 	},
 	{
-		.procname       = "nr_pdflush_threads",
-		.mode           = 0444 /* read-only */,
-		.proc_handler   = pdflush_proc_obsolete,
-	},
-	{
 		.procname	= "swappiness",
 		.data		= &vm_swappiness,
 		.maxlen		= sizeof(vm_swappiness),