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Add /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches. When written to, this will cause the kernel to discard as much pagecache and/or reclaimable slab objects as it can. THis operation requires root permissions. It won't drop dirty data, so the user should run `sync' first. Caveats: a) Holds inode_lock for exorbitant amounts of time. b) Needs to be taught about NUMA nodes: propagate these all the way through so the discarding can be controlled on a per-node basis. This is a debugging feature: useful for getting consistent results between filesystem benchmarks. We could possibly put it under a config option, but it's less than 300 bytes. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
68 lines
1.4 KiB
C
68 lines
1.4 KiB
C
/*
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* Implement the manual drop-all-pagecache function
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*/
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#include <linux/kernel.h>
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#include <linux/mm.h>
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#include <linux/fs.h>
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#include <linux/writeback.h>
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#include <linux/sysctl.h>
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#include <linux/gfp.h>
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/* A global variable is a bit ugly, but it keeps the code simple */
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int sysctl_drop_caches;
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static void drop_pagecache_sb(struct super_block *sb)
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{
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struct inode *inode;
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spin_lock(&inode_lock);
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list_for_each_entry(inode, &sb->s_inodes, i_sb_list) {
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if (inode->i_state & (I_FREEING|I_WILL_FREE))
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continue;
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invalidate_inode_pages(inode->i_mapping);
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}
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spin_unlock(&inode_lock);
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}
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void drop_pagecache(void)
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{
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struct super_block *sb;
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spin_lock(&sb_lock);
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restart:
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list_for_each_entry(sb, &super_blocks, s_list) {
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sb->s_count++;
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spin_unlock(&sb_lock);
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down_read(&sb->s_umount);
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if (sb->s_root)
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drop_pagecache_sb(sb);
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up_read(&sb->s_umount);
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spin_lock(&sb_lock);
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if (__put_super_and_need_restart(sb))
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goto restart;
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}
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spin_unlock(&sb_lock);
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}
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void drop_slab(void)
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{
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int nr_objects;
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do {
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nr_objects = shrink_slab(1000, GFP_KERNEL, 1000);
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} while (nr_objects > 10);
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}
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int drop_caches_sysctl_handler(ctl_table *table, int write,
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struct file *file, void __user *buffer, size_t *length, loff_t *ppos)
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{
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proc_dointvec_minmax(table, write, file, buffer, length, ppos);
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if (write) {
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if (sysctl_drop_caches & 1)
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drop_pagecache();
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if (sysctl_drop_caches & 2)
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drop_slab();
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}
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return 0;
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}
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