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>
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- Documentation/ABI/obsolete/proc-sys-vm-nr_pdflush_threads 5 additions, 0 deletionsDocumentation/ABI/obsolete/proc-sys-vm-nr_pdflush_threads
- Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt 8 additions, 0 deletionsDocumentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
- Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt 0 additions, 11 deletionsDocumentation/sysctl/vm.txt
- fs/fs-writeback.c 0 additions, 5 deletionsfs/fs-writeback.c
- include/linux/backing-dev.h 3 additions, 0 deletionsinclude/linux/backing-dev.h
- include/linux/writeback.h 0 additions, 5 deletionsinclude/linux/writeback.h
- kernel/sysctl.c 3 additions, 5 deletionskernel/sysctl.c
- kernel/sysctl_binary.c 1 addition, 1 deletionkernel/sysctl_binary.c
- mm/backing-dev.c 20 additions, 0 deletionsmm/backing-dev.c
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