On Monday 10 December 2007 13:42, Erez Zadok wrote:
> Needed to maintain cache coherency after branch management.
>
Hmm, I'd much prefer to be able to sleep in invalidate_mapping_pages
before this function gets exported.
As it is, it can cause massive latencies on preemption and the inode_lock
so it is pretty much debug-only IMO. I'd rather it didn't escape into the
wild as is.
Either that or rework your cache coherency somehow.
> Signed-off-by: Erez Zadok <ezk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> fs/drop_caches.c | 4 +++-
> 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/drop_caches.c b/fs/drop_caches.c
> index 59375ef..90410ac 100644
> --- a/fs/drop_caches.c
> +++ b/fs/drop_caches.c
> @@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
> */
>
> #include <linux/kernel.h>
> +#include <linux/module.h>
> #include <linux/mm.h>
> #include <linux/fs.h>
> #include <linux/writeback.h>
> @@ -12,7 +13,7 @@
> /* 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 drop_pagecache_sb(struct super_block *sb)
> {
> struct inode *inode;
>
> @@ -24,6 +25,7 @@ static void drop_pagecache_sb(struct super_block *sb)
> }
> spin_unlock(&inode_lock);
> }
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(drop_pagecache_sb);
>
> void drop_pagecache(void)
> {
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