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>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/block/genhd.c b/block/genhd.c
index 00da5219ee3..fda9c7a63c2 100644
--- a/block/genhd.c
+++ b/block/genhd.c
@@ -182,11 +182,17 @@ static int exact_lock(dev_t devt, void *data)
  */
 void add_disk(struct gendisk *disk)
 {
+        struct backing_dev_info *bdi;
+
         disk->flags |= GENHD_FL_UP;
         blk_register_region(MKDEV(disk->major, disk->first_minor),
                             disk->minors, NULL, exact_match, exact_lock, disk);
         register_disk(disk);
         blk_register_queue(disk);
+
+        bdi = &disk->queue->backing_dev_info;
+        bdi_register_dev(bdi, MKDEV(disk->major, disk->first_minor));
+        sysfs_create_link(&disk->dev.kobj, &bdi->dev->kobj, "bdi");
 }
 
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(add_disk);
@@ -194,6 +200,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(del_gendisk);	/* in partitions/check.c */
 
 void unlink_gendisk(struct gendisk *disk)
 {
+        sysfs_remove_link(&disk->dev.kobj, "bdi");
+        bdi_unregister(&disk->queue->backing_dev_info);
         blk_unregister_queue(disk);
         blk_unregister_region(MKDEV(disk->major, disk->first_minor),
                               disk->minors);