On Monday 01 October 2007 04:03, Soeren Sandmann wrote:
quoted text
> This patch adds the ability to drop mapped pages with
> /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches. This is useful to get repeatable
> measurements of startup time for applications.
>
> Without it, pages that are mapped in already-running applications will
> not get dropped, so the time measured will not be a true cold-cache
> time.

invalidate_inode_pages2_range is a nasty function... only to be used
if you really know you need it (and even in that case, it's probably
wrong!).

I have on my todo list a spring clean of mm/truncate.c to attempt to
figure out how to fix this thing properly.... but until then, it's a bad idea
to put in this kind of function.

Please just unmap_mapping_range before the existing invalidate call.
Also, I don't know if there is any use in making an extra mode for this --
presumably if someone wants to drop all pagecache, they really want
to drop all pagecache.

Aside from that, I think the idea is fine and indeed should make this
more useful (I never realised it didn't throw out mapped pages, which
we really should do to have reliable testing). So, thanks.



quoted text
> Rik pointed out that "be_atomic" is a bit pointless since there is a
> race on SMP anyway where pages can be added. However, it is there in
> the existing code, so I added it for the new code as well. Does anyone
> know why it's there?
>
>
> Soren
>
> Signed-off-by: Soren Sandmann <sandmann@redhat.com>
>
> ---
>  fs/drop_caches.c   |   13 ++++++++-----
>  include/linux/fs.h |    3 +++
>  include/linux/mm.h |    2 +-
>  mm/truncate.c      |   36 ++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
>  4 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/drop_caches.c b/fs/drop_caches.c
> index 59375ef..9f3741d 100644
> --- a/fs/drop_caches.c
> +++ b/fs/drop_caches.c
> @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
>  /* 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)
> +static void drop_pagecache_sb(struct super_block *sb, int unmap)
>  {
>  	struct inode *inode;
>
> @@ -20,12 +20,15 @@ static void drop_pagecache_sb(struct super_block *sb)
>  	list_for_each_entry(inode, &sb->s_inodes, i_sb_list) {
>  		if (inode->i_state & (I_FREEING|I_WILL_FREE))
>  			continue;
> -		__invalidate_mapping_pages(inode->i_mapping, 0, -1, true);
> +		if (unmap)
> +			__invalidate_inode_pages2_range(inode->i_mapping, 0, -1, true);
> +		else
> +			__invalidate_mapping_pages(inode->i_mapping, 0, -1, true);
>  	}
>  	spin_unlock(&inode_lock);
>  }
>
> -void drop_pagecache(void)
> +void drop_pagecache(int unmap)
>  {
>  	struct super_block *sb;
>
> @@ -36,7 +39,7 @@ restart:
>  		spin_unlock(&sb_lock);
>  		down_read(&sb->s_umount);
>  		if (sb->s_root)
> -			drop_pagecache_sb(sb);
> +			drop_pagecache_sb(sb, unmap);
>  		up_read(&sb->s_umount);
>  		spin_lock(&sb_lock);
>  		if (__put_super_and_need_restart(sb))
> @@ -60,7 +63,7 @@ int drop_caches_sysctl_handler(ctl_table *table, int
> write, proc_dointvec_minmax(table, write, file, buffer, length, ppos);
>  	if (write) {
>  		if (sysctl_drop_caches & 1)
> -			drop_pagecache();
> +			drop_pagecache(sysctl_drop_caches & 4);
>  		if (sysctl_drop_caches & 2)
>  			drop_slab();
>  	}
> diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
> index 16421f6..c112aa3 100644
> --- a/include/linux/fs.h
> +++ b/include/linux/fs.h
> @@ -1536,6 +1536,9 @@ static inline void invalidate_remote_inode(struct
> inode *inode) invalidate_mapping_pages(inode->i_mapping, 0, -1);
>  }
>  extern int invalidate_inode_pages2(struct address_space *mapping);
> +extern int __invalidate_inode_pages2_range(struct address_space *mapping,
> +					   pgoff_t start, pgoff_t end,
> +					   int be_atomic);
>  extern int invalidate_inode_pages2_range(struct address_space *mapping,
>  					 pgoff_t start, pgoff_t end);
>  extern int write_inode_now(struct inode *, int);
> diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
> index 1692dd6..6719c41 100644
> --- a/include/linux/mm.h
> +++ b/include/linux/mm.h
> @@ -1207,7 +1207,7 @@ int drop_caches_sysctl_handler(struct ctl_table *,
> int, struct file *, void __user *, size_t *, loff_t *);
>  unsigned long shrink_slab(unsigned long scanned, gfp_t gfp_mask,
>  			unsigned long lru_pages);
> -void drop_pagecache(void);
> +void drop_pagecache(int unmap);
>  void drop_slab(void);
>
>  #ifndef CONFIG_MMU
> diff --git a/mm/truncate.c b/mm/truncate.c
> index 5cdfbc1..568ac77 100644
> --- a/mm/truncate.c
> +++ b/mm/truncate.c
> @@ -371,19 +371,9 @@ static int do_launder_page(struct address_space
> *mapping, struct page *page) return mapping->a_ops->launder_page(page);
>  }
>
> -/**
> - * invalidate_inode_pages2_range - remove range of pages from an
> address_space - * @mapping: the address_space
> - * @start: the page offset 'from' which to invalidate
> - * @end: the page offset 'to' which to invalidate (inclusive)
> - *
> - * Any pages which are found to be mapped into pagetables are unmapped
> prior to - * invalidation.
> - *
> - * Returns -EIO if any pages could not be invalidated.
> - */
> -int invalidate_inode_pages2_range(struct address_space *mapping,
> -				  pgoff_t start, pgoff_t end)
> +int __invalidate_inode_pages2_range(struct address_space *mapping,
> +				    pgoff_t start, pgoff_t end,
> +				    int be_atomic)
>  {
>  	struct pagevec pvec;
>  	pgoff_t next;
> @@ -442,10 +432,28 @@ int invalidate_inode_pages2_range(struct
> address_space *mapping, unlock_page(page);
>  		}
>  		pagevec_release(&pvec);
> -		cond_resched();
> +		if (likely(!be_atomic))
> +			cond_resched();
>  	}
>  	return ret;
>  }
> +
> +/**
> + * invalidate_inode_pages2_range - remove range of pages from an
> address_space + * @mapping: the address_space
> + * @start: the page offset 'from' which to invalidate
> + * @end: the page offset 'to' which to invalidate (inclusive)
> + *
> + * Any pages which are found to be mapped into pagetables are unmapped
> prior to + * invalidation.
> + *
> + * Returns -EIO if any pages could not be invalidated.
> + */
> +int invalidate_inode_pages2_range(struct address_space *mapping,
> +				  pgoff_t start, pgoff_t end)
> +{
> +	return __invalidate_inode_pages2_range(mapping, start, end, false);
> +}
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(invalidate_inode_pages2_range);
>
>  /**
-
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