Revision 2d0f2400a49be3a177695eda381d91fec18cbd0e authored by Linus Torvalds on 23 November 2011, 17:47:25 UTC, committed by Linus Torvalds on 23 November 2011, 17:47:25 UTC
* 'drm-fixes' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux: (31 commits)
  drm: integer overflow in drm_mode_dirtyfb_ioctl()
  drivers/gpu/vga/vgaarb.c: add missing kfree
  drm/radeon/kms/atom: unify i2c gpio table handling
  drm/radeon/kms: fix up gpio i2c mask bits for r4xx for real
  ttm: Don't return the bo reserved on error path
  drm/radeon/kms: add a CS ioctl flag not to rewrite tiling flags in the CS
  drm/i915: Fix inconsistent backlight level during disabled
  drm, i915: Fix memory leak in i915_gem_busy_ioctl().
  drm/i915: Use DPCD value for max DP lanes.
  drm/i915: Initiate DP link training only on the lanes we'll be using
  drm/i915: Remove trailing white space
  drm/i915: Try harder during dp pattern 1 link training
  drm/i915: Make DP prepare/commit consistent with DP dpms
  drm/i915: Let panel power sequencing hardware do its job
  drm/i915: Treat PCH eDP like DP in most places
  drm/i915: Remove link_status field from intel_dp structure
  drm/i915: Move common PCH_PP_CONTROL setup to ironlake_get_pp_control
  drm/i915: Module parameters using '-1' as default must be signed type
  drm/i915: Turn on another required clock gating bit on gen6.
  drm/i915: Turn on a required 3D clock gating bit on Sandybridge.
  ...
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drop_caches.c
/*
 * Implement the manual drop-all-pagecache function
 */

#include <linux/kernel.h>
#include <linux/mm.h>
#include <linux/fs.h>
#include <linux/writeback.h>
#include <linux/sysctl.h>
#include <linux/gfp.h>
#include "internal.h"

/* A global variable is a bit ugly, but it keeps the code simple */
int sysctl_drop_caches;

static void drop_pagecache_sb(struct super_block *sb, void *unused)
{
	struct inode *inode, *toput_inode = NULL;

	spin_lock(&inode_sb_list_lock);
	list_for_each_entry(inode, &sb->s_inodes, i_sb_list) {
		spin_lock(&inode->i_lock);
		if ((inode->i_state & (I_FREEING|I_WILL_FREE|I_NEW)) ||
		    (inode->i_mapping->nrpages == 0)) {
			spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
			continue;
		}
		__iget(inode);
		spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
		spin_unlock(&inode_sb_list_lock);
		invalidate_mapping_pages(inode->i_mapping, 0, -1);
		iput(toput_inode);
		toput_inode = inode;
		spin_lock(&inode_sb_list_lock);
	}
	spin_unlock(&inode_sb_list_lock);
	iput(toput_inode);
}

static void drop_slab(void)
{
	int nr_objects;
	struct shrink_control shrink = {
		.gfp_mask = GFP_KERNEL,
	};

	do {
		nr_objects = shrink_slab(&shrink, 1000, 1000);
	} while (nr_objects > 10);
}

int drop_caches_sysctl_handler(ctl_table *table, int write,
	void __user *buffer, size_t *length, loff_t *ppos)
{
	int ret;

	ret = proc_dointvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, length, ppos);
	if (ret)
		return ret;
	if (write) {
		if (sysctl_drop_caches & 1)
			iterate_supers(drop_pagecache_sb, NULL);
		if (sysctl_drop_caches & 2)
			drop_slab();
	}
	return 0;
}
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