[LTP] [PATCH] remap_file_pages: Remove since corresponding syscall is depricated

[Peter Maydell]

On 17 August 2016 at 15:02, Jan Stancek <jstancek@redhat.com> wrote:
> From: "Yuriy Kolerov" <yuriy.kolerov@synopsys.com>
>> This system call is deprecated since Linux 3.16 and will
>> eventually be replaced by a slower in-kernel emulation. See:
>
> It already is replaced by emulation in latest upstream:
>   commit c8d78c1823f46519473949d33f0d1d33fe21ea16
>   Author: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
>   Date:   Tue Feb 10 14:09:46 2015 -0800
>     mm: replace remap_file_pages() syscall with emulation
>
> But as long as interface is same, why not keep the test?
> What about testing older kernels from various distros?

For that matter, it's presumably useful to test
the in-kernel emulation itself...

thanks
-- PMM