The patch titled
Subject: fs: drop_caches: draining pages before dropping caches
has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch. Its filename is
fs-drop_caches-draining-pages-before-dropping-caches.patch
This patch will shortly appear at
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/fs-drop_caches-draining-pages-before-dropping-caches.patch
This patch will later appear in the mm-unstable branch at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
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From: Andrew Yang <andrew.yang@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: fs: drop_caches: draining pages before dropping caches
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2023 17:22:02 +0800
We expect a file page access after dropping caches should be a major
fault, but sometimes it's still a minor fault. That's because a file page
can't be dropped if it's in a per-cpu pagevec. Draining all pages from
per-cpu pagevec to lru list before trying to drop caches.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230630092203.16080-1-andrew.yang@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Andrew Yang <andrew.yang@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: AngeloGioacchino Del Regno <angelogioacchino.delregno@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/drop_caches.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
--- a/fs/drop_caches.c~fs-drop_caches-draining-pages-before-dropping-caches
+++ a/fs/drop_caches.c
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
#include <linux/writeback.h>
#include <linux/sysctl.h>
#include <linux/gfp.h>
+#include <linux/swap.h>
#include "internal.h"
/* A global variable is a bit ugly, but it keeps the code simple */
@@ -59,6 +60,7 @@ int drop_caches_sysctl_handler(struct ct
static int stfu;
if (sysctl_drop_caches & 1) {
+ lru_add_drain_all();
iterate_supers(drop_pagecache_sb, NULL);
count_vm_event(DROP_PAGECACHE);
}
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from andrew.yang@xxxxxxxxxxxx are
fs-drop_caches-draining-pages-before-dropping-caches.patch
