From 3965c9ae47d64aadf6f13b6fcd37767b83c0689a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wanpeng Li Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 16:41:52 -0700 Subject: 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 Cc: Wu Fengguang Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/sysctl.c | 8 +++----- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel/sysctl.c') 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", -- cgit v1.2.3