Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] fs/drop_caches: do not scan procfs in drop_pagecache_sb()
From: Alexey Dobriyan
Date: Mon Sep 14 2026 - 05:19:35 EST
On Mon, Sep 14, 2026 at 02:14:47PM +0800, Huang Shijie wrote:
> There is no page cache for the procfs, so do not scan the
> inodes in procfs.
> @@ -20,6 +21,9 @@ static void drop_pagecache_sb(struct super_block *sb, void *unused)
> {
> struct inode *inode, *toput_inode = NULL;
>
> + if (sb->s_magic == PROC_SUPER_MAGIC)
> + return;
This should be some flag somewhere in superblock.
Other fake filesystems don't support pagecache too.