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fs: drop_caches: draining pages before dropping caches
authorAndrew Yang <andrew.yang@mediatek.com>
Fri, 30 Jun 2023 09:22:02 +0000 (17:22 +0800)
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 18 Aug 2023 17:12:11 +0000 (10:12 -0700)
commit8a144612eb8a31b94ecb2d340d07588ac115e819
treec843fbf6cd2a0b8eb4ba19ea9f5af9c7c1a5ce21
parent86327e8eb94c52eca4f93cfece2e29d1bf52acbf
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>
fs/drop_caches.c