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Diffstat (limited to 'fs/drop_caches.c')
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1 files changed, 77 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/drop_caches.c b/fs/drop_caches.c new file mode 100644 index 000000000..e619c31b6 --- /dev/null +++ b/fs/drop_caches.c @@ -0,0 +1,77 @@ +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 +/* + * Implement the manual drop-all-pagecache function + */ + +#include <linux/pagemap.h> +#include <linux/kernel.h> +#include <linux/mm.h> +#include <linux/fs.h> +#include <linux/writeback.h> +#include <linux/sysctl.h> +#include <linux/gfp.h> +#include "internal.h" + +/* A global variable is a bit ugly, but it keeps the code simple */ +int sysctl_drop_caches; + +static void drop_pagecache_sb(struct super_block *sb, void *unused) +{ + struct inode *inode, *toput_inode = NULL; + + spin_lock(&sb->s_inode_list_lock); + list_for_each_entry(inode, &sb->s_inodes, i_sb_list) { + spin_lock(&inode->i_lock); + /* + * We must skip inodes in unusual state. We may also skip + * inodes without pages but we deliberately won't in case + * we need to reschedule to avoid softlockups. + */ + if ((inode->i_state & (I_FREEING|I_WILL_FREE|I_NEW)) || + (mapping_empty(inode->i_mapping) && !need_resched())) { + spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock); + continue; + } + __iget(inode); + spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock); + spin_unlock(&sb->s_inode_list_lock); + + invalidate_mapping_pages(inode->i_mapping, 0, -1); + iput(toput_inode); + toput_inode = inode; + + cond_resched(); + spin_lock(&sb->s_inode_list_lock); + } + spin_unlock(&sb->s_inode_list_lock); + iput(toput_inode); +} + +int drop_caches_sysctl_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write, + void *buffer, size_t *length, loff_t *ppos) +{ + int ret; + + ret = proc_dointvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, length, ppos); + if (ret) + return ret; + if (write) { + static int stfu; + + if (sysctl_drop_caches & 1) { + iterate_supers(drop_pagecache_sb, NULL); + count_vm_event(DROP_PAGECACHE); + } + if (sysctl_drop_caches & 2) { + drop_slab(); + count_vm_event(DROP_SLAB); + } + if (!stfu) { + pr_info("%s (%d): drop_caches: %d\n", + current->comm, task_pid_nr(current), + sysctl_drop_caches); + } + stfu |= sysctl_drop_caches & 4; + } + return 0; +} |