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>

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+What:		/sys/class/bdi/<bdi>/
+Date:		January 2008
+Contact:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
+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> identifier can be either of the following:
+
+MAJOR:MINOR
+
+	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
+
+	The default backing dev, used for non-block device backed
+	filesystems which do not provide their own BDI.
+
+Files under /sys/class/bdi/<bdi>/
+---------------------------------
+
+read_ahead_kb (read-write)
+
+	Size of the read-ahead window in kilobytes
+
+reclaimable_kb (read-only)
+
+	Reclaimable (dirty or unstable) memory destined for writeback
+	to this device
+
+writeback_kb (read-only)
+
+	Memory currently under writeback to this device
+
+dirty_kb (read-only)
+
+	Global threshold for reclaimable + writeback memory
+
+bdi_dirty_kb (read-only)
+
+	Current threshold on this BDI for reclaimable + writeback
+	memory
+