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>
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index 97186b9..6502d35 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -1101,11 +1101,9 @@
.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",