mm: bdi: allow setting a maximum for the bdi dirty limit

Add "max_ratio" to /sys/class/bdi.  This indicates the maximum percentage of
the global dirty threshold allocated to this bdi.

[mszeredi@suse.cz]

 - fix parsing in max_ratio_store().
 - export bdi_set_max_ratio() to modules
 - limit bdi_dirty with bdi->max_ratio
 - document new sysfs attribute

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
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, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/backing-dev.h b/include/linux/backing-dev.h
index 9a8965518d1d..ad3271d1e90a 100644
--- a/include/linux/backing-dev.h
+++ b/include/linux/backing-dev.h
@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ struct backing_dev_info {
         int dirty_exceeded;
 
         unsigned int min_ratio;
+        unsigned int max_ratio, max_prop_frac;
 
         struct device *dev;
 };
@@ -140,6 +141,7 @@ static inline unsigned long bdi_stat_error(struct backing_dev_info *bdi)
 }
 
 int bdi_set_min_ratio(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, unsigned int min_ratio);
+int bdi_set_max_ratio(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, unsigned int max_ratio);
 
 /*
  * Flags in backing_dev_info::capability