[PATCH 0/3] add support for drop_caches for individual filesystem
From: Ye Bin
Date: Thu Oct 10 2024 - 07:11:32 EST
From: Ye Bin <yebin10@xxxxxxxxxx>
In order to better analyze the issue of file system uninstallation caused
by kernel module opening files, it is necessary to perform dentry recycling
on a single file system. But now, apart from global dentry recycling, it is
not supported to do dentry recycling on a single file system separately.
This feature has usage scenarios in problem localization scenarios.At the
same time, it also provides users with a slightly fine-grained
pagecache/entry recycling mechanism.
This patchset supports the recycling of pagecache/entry for individual file
systems.
Ye Bin (3):
vfs: introduce shrink_icache_sb() helper
sysctl: add support for drop_caches for individual filesystem
Documentation: add instructions for using 'drop_fs_caches sysctl'
sysctl
Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst | 27 ++++++++++++++++
fs/drop_caches.c | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
fs/inode.c | 17 ++++++++++
fs/internal.h | 1 +
include/linux/mm.h | 2 ++
kernel/sysctl.c | 9 ++++++
6 files changed, 99 insertions(+)
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2.31.1