exit/bdflush: Remove the deprecated bdflush system call
authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Tue, 29 Jun 2021 20:11:44 +0000 (15:11 -0500)
committerEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Mon, 12 Jul 2021 20:17:47 +0000 (15:17 -0500)
commitb48c7236b13cb5ef1b5fdf744aa8841df0f7b43a
tree51f6b8e92bfc09e9472d82e488f9441217d56aaa
parente73f0f0ee7541171d89f2e2491130c7771ba58d3
exit/bdflush: Remove the deprecated bdflush system call

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>
20 files changed:
arch/alpha/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl
arch/arm/tools/syscall.tbl
arch/arm64/include/asm/unistd32.h
arch/ia64/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl
arch/m68k/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl
arch/microblaze/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl
arch/mips/kernel/syscalls/syscall_o32.tbl
arch/parisc/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl
arch/powerpc/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl
arch/s390/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl
arch/sh/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl
arch/sparc/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl
arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl
arch/xtensa/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl
fs/buffer.c
include/linux/syscalls.h
include/uapi/linux/capability.h
kernel/sys_ni.c
tools/perf/arch/powerpc/entry/syscalls/syscall.tbl
tools/perf/arch/s390/entry/syscalls/syscall.tbl