BLKFLSBUF used to be overloaded for the ramdisk driver to free the whole ramdisk, which was completely different behavior compared to all other drivers. But this magic overload got removed in commit ff26956875c2 ("brd: remove support for BLKFLSBUF"), so this call is entirely pointless now. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> --- init/do_mounts_initrd.c | 9 --------- 1 file changed, 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/init/do_mounts_initrd.c b/init/do_mounts_initrd.c index d72beda824aa79..e4f88e9e1c0839 100644 --- a/init/do_mounts_initrd.c +++ b/init/do_mounts_initrd.c @@ -115,21 +115,12 @@ static void __init handle_initrd(void) if (!error) printk("okay\n"); else { - int fd = ksys_open("/dev/root.old", O_RDWR, 0); if (error == -ENOENT) printk("/initrd does not exist. Ignored.\n"); else printk("failed\n"); printk(KERN_NOTICE "Unmounting old root\n"); ksys_umount("/old", MNT_DETACH); - printk(KERN_NOTICE "Trying to free ramdisk memory ... "); - if (fd < 0) { - error = fd; - } else { - error = ksys_ioctl(fd, BLKFLSBUF, 0); - ksys_close(fd); - } - printk(!error ? "okay\n" : "failed\n"); } } -- 2.26.2