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There is plenty of anecdotal evidence and a load of blog posts suggesting that using "drop_caches" periodically keeps your system running in "tip top shape". Perhaps adding some kernel documentation will increase the amount of accurate data on its use. If we are not shrinking caches effectively, then we have real bugs. Using drop_caches will simply mask the bugs and make them harder to find, but certainly does not fix them, nor is it an appropriate "workaround" to limit the size of the caches. On the contrary, there have been bug reports on issues that turned out to be misguided use of cache dropping. Dropping caches is a very drastic and disruptive operation that is good for debugging and running tests, but if it creates bug reports from production use, kernel developers should be aware of its use. Add a bit more documentation about it, a syslog message to track down abusers, and vmstat drop counters to help analyze problem reports. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: checkpatch fixes] [hannes@cmpxchg.org: add runtime suppression control] Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
81 lines
1.8 KiB
C
81 lines
1.8 KiB
C
/*
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* Implement the manual drop-all-pagecache function
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*/
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#include <linux/kernel.h>
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#include <linux/mm.h>
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#include <linux/fs.h>
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#include <linux/writeback.h>
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#include <linux/sysctl.h>
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#include <linux/gfp.h>
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#include "internal.h"
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/* A global variable is a bit ugly, but it keeps the code simple */
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int sysctl_drop_caches;
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static void drop_pagecache_sb(struct super_block *sb, void *unused)
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{
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struct inode *inode, *toput_inode = NULL;
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spin_lock(&inode_sb_list_lock);
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list_for_each_entry(inode, &sb->s_inodes, i_sb_list) {
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spin_lock(&inode->i_lock);
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if ((inode->i_state & (I_FREEING|I_WILL_FREE|I_NEW)) ||
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(inode->i_mapping->nrpages == 0)) {
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spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
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continue;
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}
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__iget(inode);
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spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
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spin_unlock(&inode_sb_list_lock);
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invalidate_mapping_pages(inode->i_mapping, 0, -1);
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iput(toput_inode);
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toput_inode = inode;
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spin_lock(&inode_sb_list_lock);
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}
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spin_unlock(&inode_sb_list_lock);
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iput(toput_inode);
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}
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static void drop_slab(void)
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{
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int nr_objects;
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struct shrink_control shrink = {
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.gfp_mask = GFP_KERNEL,
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};
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nodes_setall(shrink.nodes_to_scan);
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do {
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nr_objects = shrink_slab(&shrink, 1000, 1000);
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} while (nr_objects > 10);
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}
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int drop_caches_sysctl_handler(ctl_table *table, int write,
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void __user *buffer, size_t *length, loff_t *ppos)
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{
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int ret;
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ret = proc_dointvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, length, ppos);
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if (ret)
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return ret;
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if (write) {
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static int stfu;
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if (sysctl_drop_caches & 1) {
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iterate_supers(drop_pagecache_sb, NULL);
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count_vm_event(DROP_PAGECACHE);
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}
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if (sysctl_drop_caches & 2) {
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drop_slab();
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count_vm_event(DROP_SLAB);
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}
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if (!stfu) {
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pr_info("%s (%d): drop_caches: %d\n",
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current->comm, task_pid_nr(current),
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sysctl_drop_caches);
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}
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stfu |= sysctl_drop_caches & 4;
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}
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return 0;
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}
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