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* fs: avoid I_NEW inodesNick Piggin2009-03-271-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | To be on the safe side, it should be less fragile to exclude I_NEW inodes from inode list scans by default (unless there is an important reason to have them). Normally they will get excluded (eg. by zero refcount or writecount etc), however it is a bit fragile for list walkers to know exactly what parts of the inode state is set up and valid to test when in I_NEW. So along these lines, move I_NEW checks upward as well (sometimes taking I_FREEING etc checks with them too -- this shouldn't be a problem should it?) Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* vfs: skip inodes without pages to free in drop_pagecache_sb()Jan Kara2008-04-291-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | Many inodes have no pagecache, so we can avoid lots of lock-takings. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Fengguang Wu <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* vfs: fix lock inversion in drop_pagecache_sb()Jan Kara2008-04-291-1/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix longstanding lock inversion in drop_pagecache_sb by dropping inode_lock before calling __invalidate_mapping_pages(). We just have to make sure inode won't go away from under us by keeping reference to it and putting the reference only after we have safely resumed the scan of the inode list. A bit tricky but not too bad... Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Fengguang Wu <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn> Cc: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* fs/drop_caches.c: make 2 functions staticAdrian Bunk2008-04-291-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | Make the following needlessly global functions static: - drop_pagecache() - drop_slab() Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* invalidate_mapping_pages(): add cond_reschedAndrew Morton2007-07-161-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | invalidate_mapping_pages() can sometimes take a long time (millions of pages to free). Long enough for the softlockup detector to trigger. We used to have a cond_resched() in there but I took it out because the drop_caches code calls invalidate_mapping_pages() under inode_lock. The patch adds a nasty flag and puts the cond_resched() back. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] remove invalidate_inode_pages()Andrew Morton2007-02-111-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | Convert all calls to invalidate_inode_pages() into open-coded calls to invalidate_mapping_pages(). Leave the invalidate_inode_pages() wrapper in place for now, marked as deprecated. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] drop-pagecacheAndrew Morton2006-01-081-0/+68
Add /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches. When written to, this will cause the kernel to discard as much pagecache and/or reclaimable slab objects as it can. THis operation requires root permissions. It won't drop dirty data, so the user should run `sync' first. Caveats: a) Holds inode_lock for exorbitant amounts of time. b) Needs to be taught about NUMA nodes: propagate these all the way through so the discarding can be controlled on a per-node basis. This is a debugging feature: useful for getting consistent results between filesystem benchmarks. We could possibly put it under a config option, but it's less than 300 bytes. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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