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authorWanpeng Li <liwp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2012-07-31 16:41:52 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-07-31 18:42:40 -0700
commit3965c9ae47d64aadf6f13b6fcd37767b83c0689a (patch)
tree9896fbd841edbaa8e374b593ad0f7b96191cda5d /kernel
parentdeaf386ee58d5336bbef8959bf304573afb67c20 (diff)
downloadlinux-3965c9ae47d64aadf6f13b6fcd37767b83c0689a.tar.gz
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 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sysctl.c8
-rw-r--r--kernel/sysctl_binary.c2
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index 97186b99b0e4..6502d35a25ba 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -1101,11 +1101,9 @@ static struct ctl_table vm_table[] = {
 		.extra1		= &zero,
 	},
 	{
-		.procname	= "nr_pdflush_threads",
-		.data		= &nr_pdflush_threads,
-		.maxlen		= sizeof nr_pdflush_threads,
-		.mode		= 0444 /* read-only*/,
-		.proc_handler	= proc_dointvec,
+		.procname       = "nr_pdflush_threads",
+		.mode           = 0444 /* read-only */,
+		.proc_handler   = pdflush_proc_obsolete,
 	},
 	{
 		.procname	= "swappiness",
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl_binary.c b/kernel/sysctl_binary.c
index a650694883a1..65bdcf198d4e 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl_binary.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl_binary.c
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ static const struct bin_table bin_vm_table[] = {
 	{ CTL_INT,	VM_DIRTY_RATIO,			"dirty_ratio" },
 	/* VM_DIRTY_WB_CS "dirty_writeback_centisecs" no longer used */
 	/* VM_DIRTY_EXPIRE_CS "dirty_expire_centisecs" no longer used */
-	{ CTL_INT,	VM_NR_PDFLUSH_THREADS,		"nr_pdflush_threads" },
+	/* VM_NR_PDFLUSH_THREADS "nr_pdflush_threads" no longer used */
 	{ CTL_INT,	VM_OVERCOMMIT_RATIO,		"overcommit_ratio" },
 	/* VM_PAGEBUF unused */
 	/* VM_HUGETLB_PAGES "nr_hugepages" no longer used */