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exit/bdflush: Remove the deprecated bdflush system call

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The bdflush system call has been deprecated for a very long time.
Recently Michael Schmitz tested[1] and found that the last known
caller of of the bdflush system call is unaffected by it's removal.

Since the code is not needed delete it.

[1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/36123b5d-daa0-6c2b-f2d4-a942f069fd54@gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87sg10quue.fsf_-_@disp2133
Tested-by: Michael Schmitz <schmitzmic@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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Eric W. Biederman
2021-06-29 15:11:44 -05:00
parent e73f0f0ee7
commit b48c7236b1
20 changed files with 16 additions and 46 deletions
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@@ -3267,33 +3267,6 @@ out:
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(try_to_free_buffers);
/*
* There are no bdflush tunables left. But distributions are
* still running obsolete flush daemons, so we terminate them here.
*
* Use of bdflush() is deprecated and will be removed in a future kernel.
* The `flush-X' kernel threads fully replace bdflush daemons and this call.
*/
SYSCALL_DEFINE2(bdflush, int, func, long, data)
{
static int msg_count;
if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
return -EPERM;
if (msg_count < 5) {
msg_count++;
printk(KERN_INFO
"warning: process `%s' used the obsolete bdflush"
" system call\n", current->comm);
printk(KERN_INFO "Fix your initscripts?\n");
}
if (func == 1)
do_exit(0);
return 0;
}
/*
* Buffer-head allocation
*/