From: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
To: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: npiggin@suse.de, agl@us.ibm.com, akpm@linux-foudation.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 2/4] mm: create /sys/kernel/mm
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:24:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080710172423.GF6664@csn.ul.ie> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080708180644.GD14908@us.ibm.com>
On (08/07/08 11:06), Nishanth Aravamudan didst pronounce:
> Add a kobject to create /sys/kernel/mm when sysfs is mounted. The
> kobject will exist regardless. This will allow for the hugepage related
> sysfs directories to exist under the mm "subsystem" directory. Add an
> ABI file appropriately.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
> diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..190d523
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm
> @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
> +What: /sys/kernel/mm
> +Date: July 2008
> +Contact: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>, VM maintainers
> +Description:
> + /sys/kernel/mm/ should contain any and all VM
> + related information in /sys/kernel/.
> diff --git a/include/linux/kobject.h b/include/linux/kobject.h
> index 60f0d41..5437ac0 100644
> --- a/include/linux/kobject.h
> +++ b/include/linux/kobject.h
> @@ -186,6 +186,8 @@ extern struct kobject *kset_find_obj(struct kset *, const char *);
>
> /* The global /sys/kernel/ kobject for people to chain off of */
> extern struct kobject *kernel_kobj;
> +/* The global /sys/kernel/mm/ kobject for people to chain off of */
> +extern struct kobject *mm_kobj;
> /* The global /sys/hypervisor/ kobject for people to chain off of */
> extern struct kobject *hypervisor_kobj;
> /* The global /sys/power/ kobject for people to chain off of */
> diff --git a/mm/mm_init.c b/mm/mm_init.c
> index eaf0d3b..4775743 100644
> --- a/mm/mm_init.c
> +++ b/mm/mm_init.c
> @@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
> */
> #include <linux/kernel.h>
> #include <linux/init.h>
> +#include <linux/kobject.h>
> #include "internal.h"
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT
> @@ -134,3 +135,17 @@ static __init int set_mminit_loglevel(char *str)
> }
> early_param("mminit_loglevel", set_mminit_loglevel);
> #endif /* CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT */
> +
> +struct kobject *mm_kobj;
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mm_kobj);
> +
> +static int __init mm_sysfs_init(void)
> +{
> + mm_kobj = kobject_create_and_add("mm", kernel_kobj);
> + if (!mm_kobj)
> + return -ENOMEM;
> +
> + return 0;
> +}
> +
> +__initcall(mm_sysfs_init);
>
> --
> Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
> IBM Linux Technology Center
>
--
Mel Gorman
Part-time Phd Student Linux Technology Center
University of Limerick IBM Dublin Software Lab
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-10 17:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-08 18:03 [RFC PATCH 0/4] -mm-only hugetlb updates Nishanth Aravamudan
2008-07-08 18:05 ` [RFC PATCH 1/4] mm: remove mm_init compilation dependency on CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT Nishanth Aravamudan
2008-07-08 18:06 ` [RFC PATCH 2/4] mm: create /sys/kernel/mm Nishanth Aravamudan
2008-07-08 18:07 ` [RFC PATCH 3/4] hugetlb: hang off of /sys/kernel/mm rather than /sys/kernel Nishanth Aravamudan
2008-07-08 18:08 ` [RFC PATCH 4/4] hugetlb: remove CONFIG_SYSFS dependency Nishanth Aravamudan
2008-07-10 17:39 ` [RFC PATCH 3/4] hugetlb: hang off of /sys/kernel/mm rather than /sys/kernel Mel Gorman
2008-07-10 17:24 ` Mel Gorman [this message]
2008-07-10 16:35 ` [RFC PATCH 1/4] mm: remove mm_init compilation dependency on CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT Mel Gorman
2008-07-08 18:13 ` [RFC PATCH 0/4] -mm-only hugetlb updates Nishanth Aravamudan
2008-07-10 13:11 ` Nick Piggin
2008-07-10 16:50 ` Nishanth Aravamudan
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