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>
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index 617d41e..b3cc739 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -833,6 +833,16 @@
.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