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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2] remove no longer use of pdflush interface
On 06/06/2012 01:28 AM, Andrew Morton wrote:

> On Tue, 5 Jun 2012 17:26:11 +0800
> Wanpeng Li <liwp.linux@gmail.com> 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) {
+ printk(KERN_WARNING "%s exported in /proc is deprecated\n",
+ table->procname);
+ *ctl_table->data = 0;
+ }
+ return -ENOSYS;
+}

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