xref: /linux/fs/drop_caches.c (revision e190bfe56841551b1ad5abb42ebd0c4798cc8c01)
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 
12 /* A global variable is a bit ugly, but it keeps the code simple */
13 int sysctl_drop_caches;
14 
15 static void drop_pagecache_sb(struct super_block *sb, void *unused)
16 {
17 	struct inode *inode, *toput_inode = NULL;
18 
19 	spin_lock(&inode_lock);
20 	list_for_each_entry(inode, &sb->s_inodes, i_sb_list) {
21 		if (inode->i_state & (I_FREEING|I_CLEAR|I_WILL_FREE|I_NEW))
22 			continue;
23 		if (inode->i_mapping->nrpages == 0)
24 			continue;
25 		__iget(inode);
26 		spin_unlock(&inode_lock);
27 		invalidate_mapping_pages(inode->i_mapping, 0, -1);
28 		iput(toput_inode);
29 		toput_inode = inode;
30 		spin_lock(&inode_lock);
31 	}
32 	spin_unlock(&inode_lock);
33 	iput(toput_inode);
34 }
35 
36 static void drop_slab(void)
37 {
38 	int nr_objects;
39 
40 	do {
41 		nr_objects = shrink_slab(1000, GFP_KERNEL, 1000);
42 	} while (nr_objects > 10);
43 }
44 
45 int drop_caches_sysctl_handler(ctl_table *table, int write,
46 	void __user *buffer, size_t *length, loff_t *ppos)
47 {
48 	proc_dointvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, length, ppos);
49 	if (write) {
50 		if (sysctl_drop_caches & 1)
51 			iterate_supers(drop_pagecache_sb, NULL);
52 		if (sysctl_drop_caches & 2)
53 			drop_slab();
54 	}
55 	return 0;
56 }
57