On 06/06/2012 10:31 AM, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
> On 06/06/2012 01:28 AM, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 5 Jun 2012 17:26:11 +0800
>> Wanpeng Li <liwp.linux@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> So perhaps the solution is to give up on the generic proc_obsolete()
>> idea, and just add a handler specifically for nr_pdflush_threads, whcih
>> uses printk_once().
>>
>
>
> If there are many users than a self made print once is worth it
> we can use the ctl_table->data pointer for this, some thing like:
>
> int nr_pdflush_was_printed;
>
> @@ -1095,11 +1095,9 @@ 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,
> + .data = &nr_pdflush_was_printed,
> + .procname = "nr_pdflush_threads",
> + .mode = 0444 /* read-only */,
> + .proc_handler = proc_obsolete,
> },
>
>
> +/* notice associated proc deprecated */
> +int proc_deprecated(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
> + void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos, )
> +{
> + if (*ctl_table->data) {
+ if(!*ctl_table->data) {
> + printk(KERN_WARNING "%s exported in /proc is deprecated\n",
> + table->procname);
> + *ctl_table->data = 0;
+ *ctl_table->data = 1;
stupid me, time for coffee
Boaz
> + }
> + return -ENOSYS;
> +}
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