linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] zram: remove obsolete sysfs attrs

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Message-ID: <20170123062025.GC2327@jagdpanzerIV.localdomain>
Date:   Mon, 23 Jan 2017 15:20:25 +0900
From:   Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>
To:     Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
Cc:     Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        zhouxianrong@...wei.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] zram: remove obsolete sysfs attrs

On (01/23/17 15:04), Minchan Kim wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 12:58:38PM +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> > We had a deprecated_attr_warn() warning for 2 years and now the
> > time has come and we finally can do the cleanup.
> > 
> > The plan was as follows:
> > 
> > : per-stat sysfs attributes are considered to be deprecated.
> > : The basic strategy is:
> > : -- the existing RW nodes will be downgraded to WO nodes (in linux 4.11)
> > : -- deprecated RO sysfs nodes will eventually be removed (in linux 4.11)
> > :
> > : The list of deprecated attributes can be found here:
> > : Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-block-zram
> > :
> > : Basically, every attribute that has its own read accessible sysfs
> > : node (e.g. num_reads) *AND* is accessible via one of the stat files
> > : (zram<id>/stat or zram<id>/io_stat or zram<id>/mm_stat) is considered
> > : to be deprecated.
> > 
> > The patch also removes `obsolete/sysfs-block-zram', clean ups
> > `testing/sysfs-block-zram' and tweaks zram.txt files.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>
> Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>

thanks.


I didn't touch some of the attrs. we can start a new deprecation cycle
a bit later. for instance, our sysfs zram_hot add/remove must leave; and
max_comp_streams is still RW - we left if intact just in case if we would
revert per-cpu compression stream and return idle list back.

	-ss