/* * Implement the manual drop-all-pagecache function */ #include #include #include #include #include #include #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(&inode_sb_list_lock); list_for_each_entry(inode, &sb->s_inodes, i_sb_list) { spin_lock(&inode->i_lock); if ((inode->i_state & (I_FREEING|I_WILL_FREE|I_NEW)) || (inode->i_mapping->nrpages == 0)) { spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock); continue; } __iget(inode); spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock); spin_unlock(&inode_sb_list_lock); invalidate_mapping_pages(inode->i_mapping, 0, -1); iput(toput_inode); toput_inode = inode; spin_lock(&inode_sb_list_lock); } spin_unlock(&inode_sb_list_lock); iput(toput_inode); } static void drop_slab(void) { int nr_objects; do { nr_objects = shrink_slab(1000, GFP_KERNEL, 1000); } while (nr_objects > 10); } int drop_caches_sysctl_handler(ctl_table *table, int write, void __user *buffer, size_t *length, loff_t *ppos) { int ret; ret = proc_dointvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, length, ppos); if (ret) return ret; if (write) { if (sysctl_drop_caches & 1) iterate_supers(drop_pagecache_sb, NULL); if (sysctl_drop_caches & 2) drop_slab(); } return 0; }