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>
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Jens Axboe 2010-04-22 11:37:01 +02:00
parent a534dbe96e
commit c3c532061e
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@ -101,6 +101,7 @@ int bdi_register(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, struct device *parent,
const char *fmt, ...);
int bdi_register_dev(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, dev_t dev);
void bdi_unregister(struct backing_dev_info *bdi);
int bdi_setup_and_register(struct backing_dev_info *, char *, unsigned int);
void bdi_start_writeback(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, struct super_block *sb,
long nr_pages);
int bdi_writeback_task(struct bdi_writeback *wb);