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mm: bdi: use MAJOR:MINOR in /sys/class/bdi
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mm-bdi-export-bdi-attributes-in-sysfs-fix-3.patch
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Subject: mm: bdi: use MAJOR:MINOR in /sys/class/bdi
From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxx>
Uniformly use MAJOR:MINOR in /sys/class/bdi/ for both block devices
and non-block device backed filesystems: FUSE and NFS.
Add symlink for block devices:
/sys/block/<name>/bdi -> /sys/class/bdi/<bdi>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-bdi | 14 +++++---------
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff -puN Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-bdi~mm-bdi-export-bdi-attributes-in-sysfs-fix-3 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-bdi
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-bdi~mm-bdi-export-bdi-attributes-in-sysfs-fix-3
+++ a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-bdi
@@ -6,17 +6,13 @@ Description:
Provide a place in sysfs for the backing_dev_info object.
This allows us to see and set the various BDI specific variables.
-The <bdi> identifyer can take the following forms:
+The <bdi> identifier can be either of the following:
-blk-NAME
+MAJOR:MINOR
- Block devices, NAME is 'sda', 'loop0', etc...
-
-FSTYPE-MAJOR:MINOR
-
- Non-block device backed filesystems which provide their own
- BDI, such as NFS and FUSE. MAJOR:MINOR is the value of st_dev
- for files on this filesystem.
+ Device number for block devices, or value of st_dev on
+ non-block filesystems which provide their own BDI, such as NFS
+ and FUSE.
default
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from mszeredi@xxxxxxx are
origin.patch
sys_remap_file_pages-fix-vm_file-accounting.patch
fuse-fix-attribute-caching-after-create.patch
fuse-save-space-in-struct-fuse_req.patch
fuse-limit-queued-background-requests.patch
mount-options-add-documentation.patch
mount-options-add-generic_show_options.patch
mount-options-fix-adfs.patch
mount-options-fix-affs.patch
mount-options-fix-afs.patch
mount-options-fix-autofs4.patch
mount-options-fix-autofs.patch
mount-options-fix-befs.patch
mount-options-fix-capifs.patch
mount-options-fix-devpts.patch
mount-options-fix-ext2.patch
mount-options-fix-fat.patch
mount-options-fix-fuse.patch
mount-options-fix-hostfs.patch
mount-options-fix-hpfs.patch
mount-options-fix-hugetlbfs.patch
mount-options-fix-isofs.patch
mount-options-fix-ncpfs.patch
mount-options-fix-reiserfs.patch
mount-options-fix-spufs.patch
mount-options-fix-tmpfs.patch
mount-options-fix-tmpfs-fix.patch
mount-options-fix-udf.patch
vfs-create-proc-pid-mountinfo.patch
mm-bdi-export-bdi-attributes-in-sysfs.patch
mm-bdi-export-bdi-attributes-in-sysfs-fix.patch
mm-bdi-export-bdi-attributes-in-sysfs-fix-2.patch
mm-bdi-export-bdi-attributes-in-sysfs-fix-3.patch
mm-bdi-export-bdi-attributes-in-sysfs-fix-4.patch
mm-bdi-expose-the-bdi-object-in-sysfs-for-nfs.patch
mm-bdi-expose-the-bdi-object-in-sysfs-for-nfs-fix.patch
mm-bdi-expose-the-bdi-object-in-sysfs-for-fuse.patch
mm-bdi-expose-the-bdi-object-in-sysfs-for-fuse-fix.patch
mm-bdi-allow-setting-a-minimum-for-the-bdi-dirty-limit.patch
mm-bdi-allow-setting-a-maximum-for-the-bdi-dirty-limit.patch
mm-bdi-allow-setting-a-maximum-for-the-bdi-dirty-limit-fix.patch
mm-bdi-move-statistics-to-debugfs.patch
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