On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:49:02 +0100 Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx> > > 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@xxxxxxx] > > - 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 please always provide diffstats. Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-bdi | 50 +++++++++++++ block/genhd.c | 3 include/linux/backing-dev.h | 8 ++ include/linux/writeback.h | 3 lib/percpu_counter.c | 1 mm/backing-dev.c | 108 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ mm/page-writeback.c | 2 mm/readahead.c | 8 +- 8 files changed, 181 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) would you believe this breaks ia64 allmodconfig, in the usual place: In file included from arch/ia64/ia32/sys_ia32.c:59: arch/ia64/ia32/ia32priv.h:342:1: warning: "SET_PERSONALITY" redefined In file included from include/linux/elf.h:7, from include/linux/module.h:14, from include/linux/device.h:21, from include/linux/backing-dev.h:15, from include/linux/nfs_fs_sb.h:5, from include/linux/nfs_fs.h:50, from arch/ia64/ia32/sys_ia32.c:35: include/asm/elf.h:180:1: warning: this is the location of the previous definition We keep on hitting stupid build errors in this area: ia64 and elf. It is obviously quite fragile. It would be nice to fix it properly. For now, the easy fix: --- a/include/linux/backing-dev.h~mm-bdi-export-bdi-attributes-in-sysfs-ia64-fix +++ a/include/linux/backing-dev.h @@ -12,10 +12,10 @@ #include <linux/log2.h> #include <linux/proportions.h> #include <linux/kernel.h> -#include <linux/device.h> #include <asm/atomic.h> struct page; +struct device; /* * Bits in backing_dev_info.state -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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