#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. * * 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 shrink_control { gfp_t gfp_mask; /* How many slab objects shrinker() should scan and try to reclaim */ unsigned long nr_to_scan; }; #define SHRINK_STOP (~0UL) /* * A callback you can register to apply pressure to ageable caches. * * @shrink() 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). * * @count_objects should return the number of freeable items in the cache. If * there are no objects to free or the number of freeable items cannot be * determined, it should return 0. No deadlock checks should be done during the * count callback - the shrinker relies on aggregating scan counts that couldn't * be executed due to potential deadlocks to be run at a later call when the * deadlock condition is no longer pending. * * @scan_objects will only be called if @count_objects returned a non-zero * value for the number of freeable objects. The callout should scan the cache * and attempt to free items from the cache. It should then return the number * of objects freed during the scan, or SHRINK_STOP if progress cannot be made * due to potential deadlocks. If SHRINK_STOP is returned, then no further * attempts to call the @scan_objects will be made from the current reclaim * context. */ struct shrinker { int (*shrink)(struct shrinker *, struct shrink_control *sc); unsigned long (*count_objects)(struct shrinker *, struct shrink_control *sc); unsigned long (*scan_objects)(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; atomic_long_t nr_in_batch; /* 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