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authorTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>2011-11-28 09:46:22 -0800
committerTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>2011-11-28 09:46:22 -0800
commitd4bbf7e7759afc172e2bfbc5c416324590049cdd (patch)
tree7eab5ee5481cd3dcf1162329fec827177640018a /include/linux/shrinker.h
parenta150439c4a97db379f0ed6faa46fbbb6e7bf3cb2 (diff)
parent401d0069cb344f401bc9d264c31db55876ff78c0 (diff)
Merge branch 'master' into x86/memblock
Conflicts & resolutions: * arch/x86/xen/setup.c dc91c728fd "xen: allow extra memory to be in multiple regions" 24aa07882b "memblock, x86: Replace memblock_x86_reserve/free..." conflicted on xen_add_extra_mem() updates. The resolution is trivial as the latter just want to replace memblock_x86_reserve_range() with memblock_reserve(). * drivers/pci/intel-iommu.c 166e9278a3f "x86/ia64: intel-iommu: move to drivers/iommu/" 5dfe8660a3d "bootmem: Replace work_with_active_regions() with..." conflicted as the former moved the file under drivers/iommu/. Resolved by applying the chnages from the latter on the moved file. * mm/Kconfig 6661672053a "memblock: add NO_BOOTMEM config symbol" c378ddd53f9 "memblock, x86: Make ARCH_DISCARD_MEMBLOCK a config option" conflicted trivially. Both added config options. Just letting both add their own options resolves the conflict. * mm/memblock.c d1f0ece6cdc "mm/memblock.c: small function definition fixes" ed7b56a799c "memblock: Remove memblock_memory_can_coalesce()" confliected. The former updates function removed by the latter. Resolution is trivial. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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+#ifndef _LINUX_SHRINKER_H
+#define _LINUX_SHRINKER_H
+
+/*
+ * This struct is used to pass information from page reclaim to the shrinkers.
+ * We consolidate the values for easier extention later.
+ */
+struct shrink_control {
+ gfp_t gfp_mask;
+
+ /* How many slab objects shrinker() should scan and try to reclaim */
+ unsigned long nr_to_scan;
+};
+
+/*
+ * A callback you can register to apply pressure to ageable caches.
+ *
+ * 'sc' is passed shrink_control which includes a count 'nr_to_scan'
+ * and a 'gfpmask'. It should look through the least-recently-used
+ * 'nr_to_scan' entries and attempt to free them up. It should return
+ * the number of objects which remain in the cache. If it returns -1, it means
+ * it cannot do any scanning at this time (eg. there is a risk of deadlock).
+ * The callback must not return -1 if nr_to_scan is zero.
+ *
+ * The 'gfpmask' refers to the allocation we are currently trying to
+ * fulfil.
+ *
+ * Note that 'shrink' will be passed nr_to_scan == 0 when the VM is
+ * querying the cache size, so a fastpath for that case is appropriate.
+ */
+struct shrinker {
+ int (*shrink)(struct shrinker *, struct shrink_control *sc);
+ int seeks; /* seeks to recreate an obj */
+ long batch; /* reclaim batch size, 0 = default */
+
+ /* These are for internal use */
+ struct list_head list;
+ long nr; /* objs pending delete */
+};
+#define DEFAULT_SEEKS 2 /* A good number if you don't know better. */
+extern void register_shrinker(struct shrinker *);
+extern void unregister_shrinker(struct shrinker *);
+#endif