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| author | Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> | 2010-04-22 11:37:01 +0200 |
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| committer | Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> | 2010-04-22 11:39:36 +0200 |
| commit | c3c532061e46156e8aab1268f38d66cfb63aeb2d (patch) | |
| tree | 8c5b027873b823b04f5564d442477e80e82e8edb /mm/backing-dev.c | |
| parent | a534dbe96e9929c7245924d8252d89048c23d569 (diff) | |
bdi: add helper function for doing init and register of a bdi for a file system
Pretty trivial helper, just sets up the bdi and registers it. An atomic
sequence count is used to ensure that the registered sysfs names are
unique.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/backing-dev.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/backing-dev.c | 29 |
1 files changed, 29 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/backing-dev.c b/mm/backing-dev.c index f13e067e1467..dbda4707f593 100644 --- a/mm/backing-dev.c +++ b/mm/backing-dev.c @@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ #include <linux/writeback.h> #include <linux/device.h> +static atomic_long_t bdi_seq = ATOMIC_LONG_INIT(0); + void default_unplug_io_fn(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, struct page *page) { } @@ -715,6 +717,33 @@ void bdi_destroy(struct backing_dev_info *bdi) } EXPORT_SYMBOL(bdi_destroy); +/* + * For use from filesystems to quickly init and register a bdi associated + * with dirty writeback + */ +int bdi_setup_and_register(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, char *name, + unsigned int cap) +{ + char tmp[32]; + int err; + + bdi->name = name; + bdi->capabilities = cap; + err = bdi_init(bdi); + if (err) + return err; + + sprintf(tmp, "%.28s%s", name, "-%d"); + err = bdi_register(bdi, NULL, tmp, atomic_long_inc_return(&bdi_seq)); + if (err) { + bdi_destroy(bdi); + return err; + } + + return 0; +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(bdi_setup_and_register); + static wait_queue_head_t congestion_wqh[2] = { __WAIT_QUEUE_HEAD_INITIALIZER(congestion_wqh[0]), __WAIT_QUEUE_HEAD_INITIALIZER(congestion_wqh[1]) |