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, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/backing-dev.h b/include/linux/backing-dev.h
index b66fa2bdfd9c..6d513666d45c 100644
--- a/include/linux/backing-dev.h
+++ b/include/linux/backing-dev.h
@@ -11,9 +11,11 @@
 #include <linux/percpu_counter.h>
 #include <linux/log2.h>
 #include <linux/proportions.h>
+#include <linux/kernel.h>
 #include <asm/atomic.h>
 
 struct page;
+struct device;
 
 /*
  * Bits in backing_dev_info.state
@@ -48,11 +50,18 @@ struct backing_dev_info {
 
         struct prop_local_percpu completions;
         int dirty_exceeded;
+
+        struct device *dev;
 };
 
 int bdi_init(struct backing_dev_info *bdi);
 void bdi_destroy(struct backing_dev_info *bdi);
 
+int bdi_register(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, struct device *parent,
+                const char *fmt, ...);
+int bdi_register_dev(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, dev_t dev);
+void bdi_unregister(struct backing_dev_info *bdi);
+
 static inline void __add_bdi_stat(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
                 enum bdi_stat_item item, s64 amount)
 {