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, 7 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/mm/readahead.c b/mm/readahead.c
index 8762e89..d8723a5 100644
--- a/mm/readahead.c
+++ b/mm/readahead.c
@@ -235,7 +235,13 @@ unsigned long max_sane_readahead(unsigned long nr)
 
 static int __init readahead_init(void)
 {
-	return bdi_init(&default_backing_dev_info);
+	int err;
+
+	err = bdi_init(&default_backing_dev_info);
+	if (!err)
+		bdi_register(&default_backing_dev_info, NULL, "default");
+
+	return err;
 }
 subsys_initcall(readahead_init);