Zhang Yanfei a11edb59a0 /dev/oldmem: Remove the interface
/dev/oldmem provides the interface for us to access the "old memory" in
the dump-capture kernel.  Unfortunately, no one actually uses this
interface.

And this interface could actually cause some real problems if used on ia64
where the cached/uncached accesses are mixed.  See the discussion from the
link: https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/4/12/386.

So Eric suggested that we should remove /dev/oldmem as an unused piece of
code.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: mention /dev/oldmem obsolescence in devices.txt]
Suggested-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Cc: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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