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 #include "internal.h" 12 13 /* A global variable is a bit ugly, but it keeps the code simple */ 14 int sysctl_drop_caches; 15 16 static void drop_pagecache_sb(struct super_block *sb, void *unused) 17 { 18 struct inode *inode, *toput_inode = NULL; 19 20 spin_lock(&inode_sb_list_lock); 21 list_for_each_entry(inode, &sb->s_inodes, i_sb_list) { 22 spin_lock(&inode->i_lock); 23 if ((inode->i_state & (I_FREEING|I_WILL_FREE|I_NEW)) || 24 (inode->i_mapping->nrpages == 0)) { 25 spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock); 26 continue; 27 } 28 __iget(inode); 29 spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock); 30 spin_unlock(&inode_sb_list_lock); 31 invalidate_mapping_pages(inode->i_mapping, 0, -1); 32 iput(toput_inode); 33 toput_inode = inode; 34 spin_lock(&inode_sb_list_lock); 35 } 36 spin_unlock(&inode_sb_list_lock); 37 iput(toput_inode); 38 } 39 40 static void drop_slab(void) 41 { 42 int nr_objects; 43 44 do { 45 nr_objects = shrink_slab(1000, GFP_KERNEL, 1000); 46 } while (nr_objects > 10); 47 } 48 49 int drop_caches_sysctl_handler(ctl_table *table, int write, 50 void __user *buffer, size_t *length, loff_t *ppos) 51 { 52 int ret; 53 54 ret = proc_dointvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, length, ppos); 55 if (ret) 56 return ret; 57 if (write) { 58 if (sysctl_drop_caches & 1) 59 iterate_supers(drop_pagecache_sb, NULL); 60 if (sysctl_drop_caches & 2) 61 drop_slab(); 62 } 63 return 0; 64 } 65