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| author | Ying Han | 2011-05-24 17:12:26 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds | 2011-05-25 08:39:25 -0700 |
| commit | a09ed5e00084448453c8bada4dcd31e5fbfc2f21 (patch) | |
| tree | 493f5f2a93efb080cdcc28e793cbcfc7999e66eb /include | |
| parent | 7b1de5868b124d8f399d8791ed30a9b679d64d4d (diff) | |
vmscan: change shrink_slab() interfaces by passing shrink_control
Consolidate the existing parameters to shrink_slab() into a new
shrink_control struct. This is needed later to pass the same struct to
shrinkers.
Signed-off-by: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/mm.h | 13 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h index 8e2f2cd821f7..32cfa9602d00 100644 --- a/include/linux/mm.h +++ b/include/linux/mm.h @@ -1162,6 +1162,15 @@ static inline void sync_mm_rss(struct task_struct *task, struct mm_struct *mm) #endif /* + * This struct is used to pass information from page reclaim to the shrinkers. + * We consolidate the values for easier extention later. + */ +struct shrink_control { + unsigned long nr_scanned; + gfp_t gfp_mask; +}; + +/* * A callback you can register to apply pressure to ageable caches. * * 'shrink' is passed a count 'nr_to_scan' and a 'gfpmask'. It should @@ -1630,8 +1639,8 @@ int in_gate_area_no_mm(unsigned long addr); int drop_caches_sysctl_handler(struct ctl_table *, int, void __user *, size_t *, loff_t *); -unsigned long shrink_slab(unsigned long scanned, gfp_t gfp_mask, - unsigned long lru_pages); +unsigned long shrink_slab(struct shrink_control *shrink, + unsigned long lru_pages); #ifndef CONFIG_MMU #define randomize_va_space 0 |