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	It's unused. It isn't needed -- read or write flag is already passed and sysctl shouldn't care about the rest. It _was_ used in two places at arch/frv for some reason. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
		
			
				
	
	
		
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			76 lines
		
	
	
	
		
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			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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/* 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)
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{
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	struct inode *inode, *toput_inode = NULL;
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	spin_lock(&inode_lock);
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	list_for_each_entry(inode, &sb->s_inodes, i_sb_list) {
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		if (inode->i_state & (I_FREEING|I_CLEAR|I_WILL_FREE|I_NEW))
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			continue;
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		if (inode->i_mapping->nrpages == 0)
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			continue;
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		__iget(inode);
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		spin_unlock(&inode_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_lock);
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	}
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	spin_unlock(&inode_lock);
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	iput(toput_inode);
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}
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static void drop_pagecache(void)
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{
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	struct super_block *sb;
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	spin_lock(&sb_lock);
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restart:
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	list_for_each_entry(sb, &super_blocks, s_list) {
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		sb->s_count++;
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		spin_unlock(&sb_lock);
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		down_read(&sb->s_umount);
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		if (sb->s_root)
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			drop_pagecache_sb(sb);
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		up_read(&sb->s_umount);
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		spin_lock(&sb_lock);
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		if (__put_super_and_need_restart(sb))
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			goto restart;
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	}
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	spin_unlock(&sb_lock);
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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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	do {
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		nr_objects = shrink_slab(1000, GFP_KERNEL, 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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	proc_dointvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, length, ppos);
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	if (write) {
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		if (sysctl_drop_caches & 1)
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			drop_pagecache();
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		if (sysctl_drop_caches & 2)
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			drop_slab();
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	}
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	return 0;
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}
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