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 --- include/linux/writeback.h | 5 ----- 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'include/linux/writeback.h') diff --git a/include/linux/writeback.h b/include/linux/writeback.h index 6d0a0fcd80e7..c66fe3332d83 100644 --- a/include/linux/writeback.h +++ b/include/linux/writeback.h @@ -189,9 +189,4 @@ void tag_pages_for_writeback(struct address_space *mapping, void account_page_redirty(struct page *page); -/* pdflush.c */ -extern int nr_pdflush_threads; /* Global so it can be exported to sysctl - read-only. */ - - #endif /* WRITEBACK_H */ -- cgit From 0d5c3eba2e1e5aa74e097f49bc90b58f607e101c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Artem Bityutskiy Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 18:12:08 +0300 Subject: vfs: nuke pdflush from comments The pdflush thread is long gone, so this patch removes references to pdflush from vfs comments. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy Signed-off-by: Al Viro --- fs/bio.c | 2 +- include/linux/writeback.h | 1 - 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'include/linux/writeback.h') diff --git a/fs/bio.c b/fs/bio.c index 73922abba832..5eaa70c9d96e 100644 --- a/fs/bio.c +++ b/fs/bio.c @@ -1312,7 +1312,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(bio_copy_kern); * Note that this code is very hard to test under normal circumstances because * direct-io pins the pages with get_user_pages(). This makes * is_page_cache_freeable return false, and the VM will not clean the pages. - * But other code (eg, pdflush) could clean the pages if they are mapped + * But other code (eg, flusher threads) could clean the pages if they are mapped * pagecache. * * Simply disabling the call to bio_set_pages_dirty() is a good way to test the diff --git a/include/linux/writeback.h b/include/linux/writeback.h index c66fe3332d83..50c3e8fa06a8 100644 --- a/include/linux/writeback.h +++ b/include/linux/writeback.h @@ -104,7 +104,6 @@ static inline void wait_on_inode(struct inode *inode) wait_on_bit(&inode->i_state, __I_NEW, inode_wait, TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE); } - /* * mm/page-writeback.c */ -- cgit