mm: bdi: export BDI attributes in sysfs
authorPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:54:32 +0000 (00:54 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:29:49 +0000 (08:29 -0700)
commitcf0ca9fe5dd9e3693d935757a7b2fc50fc576554
treec795c5271eda9fc67579fa3176c646b892dfdb41
parentcaafa4324335aeb11bc233d5f87aca8cce30beba
mm: bdi: export BDI attributes in sysfs

Provide a place in sysfs (/sys/class/bdi) for the backing_dev_info object.
This allows us to see and set the various BDI specific variables.

In particular this properly exposes the read-ahead window for all relevant
users and /sys/block/<block>/queue/read_ahead_kb should be deprecated.

With patient help from Kay Sievers and Greg KH

[mszeredi@suse.cz]

 - split off NFS and FUSE changes into separate patches
 - document new sysfs attributes under Documentation/ABI
 - do bdi_class_init as a core_initcall, otherwise the "default" BDI
   won't be initialized
 - remove bdi_init_fmt macro, it's not used very much

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix ia64 warning]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Acked-by: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-bdi [new file with mode: 0644]
block/genhd.c
include/linux/backing-dev.h
include/linux/writeback.h
lib/percpu_counter.c
mm/backing-dev.c
mm/page-writeback.c
mm/readahead.c