xref: /openbmc/linux/fs/drop_caches.c (revision 6d99a79c)
1 // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
2 /*
3  * Implement the manual drop-all-pagecache function
4  */
5 
6 #include <linux/kernel.h>
7 #include <linux/mm.h>
8 #include <linux/fs.h>
9 #include <linux/writeback.h>
10 #include <linux/sysctl.h>
11 #include <linux/gfp.h>
12 #include "internal.h"
13 
14 /* A global variable is a bit ugly, but it keeps the code simple */
15 int sysctl_drop_caches;
16 
17 static void drop_pagecache_sb(struct super_block *sb, void *unused)
18 {
19 	struct inode *inode, *toput_inode = NULL;
20 
21 	spin_lock(&sb->s_inode_list_lock);
22 	list_for_each_entry(inode, &sb->s_inodes, i_sb_list) {
23 		spin_lock(&inode->i_lock);
24 		if ((inode->i_state & (I_FREEING|I_WILL_FREE|I_NEW)) ||
25 		    (inode->i_mapping->nrpages == 0)) {
26 			spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
27 			continue;
28 		}
29 		__iget(inode);
30 		spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
31 		spin_unlock(&sb->s_inode_list_lock);
32 
33 		invalidate_mapping_pages(inode->i_mapping, 0, -1);
34 		iput(toput_inode);
35 		toput_inode = inode;
36 
37 		spin_lock(&sb->s_inode_list_lock);
38 	}
39 	spin_unlock(&sb->s_inode_list_lock);
40 	iput(toput_inode);
41 }
42 
43 int drop_caches_sysctl_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
44 	void __user *buffer, size_t *length, loff_t *ppos)
45 {
46 	int ret;
47 
48 	ret = proc_dointvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, length, ppos);
49 	if (ret)
50 		return ret;
51 	if (write) {
52 		static int stfu;
53 
54 		if (sysctl_drop_caches & 1) {
55 			iterate_supers(drop_pagecache_sb, NULL);
56 			count_vm_event(DROP_PAGECACHE);
57 		}
58 		if (sysctl_drop_caches & 2) {
59 			drop_slab();
60 			count_vm_event(DROP_SLAB);
61 		}
62 		if (!stfu) {
63 			pr_info("%s (%d): drop_caches: %d\n",
64 				current->comm, task_pid_nr(current),
65 				sysctl_drop_caches);
66 		}
67 		stfu |= sysctl_drop_caches & 4;
68 	}
69 	return 0;
70 }
71