On Tue 03-10-17 09:16:21, Jens Axboe wrote: > 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 <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> Agreed. You can add: Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Honza > --- > 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 <liwp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > -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 > -- Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx> SUSE Labs, CR