mm: create /sys/kernel/mm

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. [[email protected]: fix build] Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <[email protected]> Cc: Nick Piggin <[email protected]> Cc: Mel Gorman <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
chewitt · Jul 24, 2008 · ff7ea79 · ff7ea79
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diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+What:		/sys/kernel/mm
+Date:		July 2008
+Contact:	Nishanth Aravamudan <[email protected]>, 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
@@ -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
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@
  */
 #include <linux/kernel.h>
 #include <linux/init.h>
+#include <linux/kobject.h>
+#include <linux/module.h>
 #include "internal.h"
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT
@@ -134,3 +136,17 @@ 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);