From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752235AbdJCPQc (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Oct 2017 11:16:32 -0400 Received: from mail-it0-f45.google.com ([209.85.214.45]:53871 "EHLO mail-it0-f45.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751852AbdJCPQ3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Oct 2017 11:16:29 -0400 X-Google-Smtp-Source: AOwi7QBmawnuq6X2Pub8fMQMCW1khXC9aTTlL1s2mpThDk6HILbhDCV5oDeKdiImZYbJvZQkqIKAbQ== From: Jens Axboe To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Cc: hannes@cmpxchg.org, jack@suse.cz, Jens Axboe Subject: [PATCH 2/2] sysctl: remove /proc/sys/vm/nr_pdflush_threads Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2017 09:16:21 -0600 Message-Id: <1507043781-2874-3-git-send-email-axboe@kernel.dk> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.7.4 In-Reply-To: <1507043781-2874-1-git-send-email-axboe@kernel.dk> References: <1507043781-2874-1-git-send-email-axboe@kernel.dk> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe --- Documentation/ABI/obsolete/proc-sys-vm-nr_pdflush_threads | 5 ----- kernel/sysctl.c | 5 ----- 2 files changed, 10 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/obsolete/proc-sys-vm-nr_pdflush_threads diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/proc-sys-vm-nr_pdflush_threads b/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/proc-sys-vm-nr_pdflush_threads deleted file mode 100644 index b0b0eeb20fe3..000000000000 --- a/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/proc-sys-vm-nr_pdflush_threads +++ /dev/null @@ -1,5 +0,0 @@ -What: /proc/sys/vm/nr_pdflush_threads -Date: June 2012 -Contact: Wanpeng Li -Description: Since pdflush is replaced by per-BDI flusher, the interface of old pdflush - exported in /proc/sys/vm/ should be removed. 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), -- 2.7.4