xref: /linux/fs/drop_caches.c (revision 4949009eb8d40a441dcddcd96e101e77d31cf1b2)
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 		int nid;
46 
47 		nr_objects = 0;
48 		for_each_online_node(nid)
49 			nr_objects += shrink_node_slabs(GFP_KERNEL, nid,
50 							1000, 1000);
51 	} while (nr_objects > 10);
52 }
53 
54 int drop_caches_sysctl_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
55 	void __user *buffer, size_t *length, loff_t *ppos)
56 {
57 	int ret;
58 
59 	ret = proc_dointvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, length, ppos);
60 	if (ret)
61 		return ret;
62 	if (write) {
63 		static int stfu;
64 
65 		if (sysctl_drop_caches & 1) {
66 			iterate_supers(drop_pagecache_sb, NULL);
67 			count_vm_event(DROP_PAGECACHE);
68 		}
69 		if (sysctl_drop_caches & 2) {
70 			drop_slab();
71 			count_vm_event(DROP_SLAB);
72 		}
73 		if (!stfu) {
74 			pr_info("%s (%d): drop_caches: %d\n",
75 				current->comm, task_pid_nr(current),
76 				sysctl_drop_caches);
77 		}
78 		stfu |= sysctl_drop_caches & 4;
79 	}
80 	return 0;
81 }
82