From: Andrew Yang <andrew.yang@mediatek.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2023 09:22:02 +0000 (+0800)
Subject: fs: drop_caches: draining pages before dropping caches
X-Git-Tag: v6.6.7~1970^2~449
X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8a144612eb8a31b94ecb2d340d07588ac115e819;p=platform%2Fkernel%2Flinux-starfive.git

fs: drop_caches: draining pages before dropping caches

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@mediatek.com
Signed-off-by: Andrew Yang <andrew.yang@mediatek.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: AngeloGioacchino Del Regno <angelogioacchino.delregno@collabora.com>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

diff --git a/fs/drop_caches.c b/fs/drop_caches.c
index e619c31b6bd9..b9575957a7c2 100644
--- a/fs/drop_caches.c
+++ b/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 ctl_table *table, int write,
 		static int stfu;
 
 		if (sysctl_drop_caches & 1) {
+			lru_add_drain_all();
 			iterate_supers(drop_pagecache_sb, NULL);
 			count_vm_event(DROP_PAGECACHE);
 		}