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   1 /*
   2  * Implement the manual drop-all-pagecache function
   3  */
   4
   5 #include <linux/kernel.h>
   6 #include <linux/mm.h>
   7 #include <linux/fs.h>
   8 #include <linux/writeback.h>
   9 #include <linux/sysctl.h>
  10 #include <linux/gfp.h>
  11
  12 /* A global variable is a bit ugly, but it keeps the code simple */
  13 int sysctl_drop_caches;
  14
  15 static void drop_pagecache_sb(struct super_block *sb, void *unused)
  16 {
  17         struct inode *inode, *toput_inode = NULL;
  18
  19         spin_lock(&inode_lock);
  20         list_for_each_entry(inode, &sb->s_inodes, i_sb_list) {
  21                 spin_lock(&inode->i_lock);
  22                 if ((inode->i_state & (I_FREEING|I_WILL_FREE|I_NEW)) ||
  23                     (inode->i_mapping->nrpages == 0)) {
  24                         spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
  25                         continue;
  26                 }
  27                 __iget(inode);
  28                 spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
  29                 spin_unlock(&inode_lock);
  30                 invalidate_mapping_pages(inode->i_mapping, 0, -1);
  31                 iput(toput_inode);
  32                 toput_inode = inode;
  33                 spin_lock(&inode_lock);
  34         }
  35         spin_unlock(&inode_lock);
  36         iput(toput_inode);
  37 }
  38
  39 static void drop_slab(void)
  40 {
  41         int nr_objects;
  42
  43         do {
  44                 nr_objects = shrink_slab(1000, GFP_KERNEL, 1000);
  45         } while (nr_objects > 10);
  46 }
  47
  48 int drop_caches_sysctl_handler(ctl_table *table, int write,
  49         void __user *buffer, size_t *length, loff_t *ppos)
  50 {
  51         int ret;
  52
  53         ret = proc_dointvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, length, ppos);
  54         if (ret)
  55                 return ret;
  56         if (write) {
  57                 if (sysctl_drop_caches & 1)
  58                         iterate_supers(drop_pagecache_sb, NULL);
  59                 if (sysctl_drop_caches & 2)
  60                         drop_slab();
  61         }
  62         return 0;
  63 }