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| author | Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> | 2008-10-18 20:26:53 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2008-10-20 08:52:31 -0700 |
| commit | af936a1606246a10c145feac3770f6287f483f02 (patch) | |
| tree | 8b1ca7fabb5c749ffdecd654519889c6c2ed2fb6 /kernel/sysctl.c | |
| parent | 64d6519dda3905dfb94d3f93c07c5f263f41813f (diff) | |
vmscan: unevictable LRU scan sysctl
This patch adds a function to scan individual or all zones' unevictable
lists and move any pages that have become evictable onto the respective
zone's inactive list, where shrink_inactive_list() will deal with them.
Adds sysctl to scan all nodes, and per node attributes to individual
nodes' zones.
Kosaki: If evictable page found in unevictable lru when write
/proc/sys/vm/scan_unevictable_pages, print filename and file offset of
these pages.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix one CONFIG_MMU=n build error]
[kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: adapt vmscan-unevictable-lru-scan-sysctl.patch to new sysfs API]
Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/sysctl.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/sysctl.c | 10 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c index 617d41e4d6a0..b3cc73931d1f 100644 --- a/kernel/sysctl.c +++ b/kernel/sysctl.c @@ -833,6 +833,16 @@ static struct ctl_table kern_table[] = { .proc_handler = &proc_dointvec, }, #endif +#ifdef CONFIG_UNEVICTABLE_LRU + { + .ctl_name = CTL_UNNUMBERED, + .procname = "scan_unevictable_pages", + .data = &scan_unevictable_pages, + .maxlen = sizeof(scan_unevictable_pages), + .mode = 0644, + .proc_handler = &scan_unevictable_handler, + }, +#endif /* * NOTE: do not add new entries to this table unless you have read * Documentation/sysctl/ctl_unnumbered.txt |