What happened in UBIFS during drop cache?

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Today I want to know what happend in UBIFS during drop cache. 

Drop cache is part of sysctl, you can get the details from Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt as below:

drop_caches

Writing to this will cause the kernel to drop clean caches, dentries and
inodes from memory, causing that memory to become free.

To free pagecache:
echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
To free dentries and inodes:
echo 2 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
To free pagecache, dentries and inodes:
echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches

As this is a non-destructive operation and dirty objects are not freeable, the
user should run `sync‘ first.

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After echo N > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches, kernel will call function drop_caches_sysctl_handler, this is the top interface to drop caches:

 1 int drop_caches_sysctl_handler(ctl_table *table, int write, 2     void __user *buffer, size_t *length, loff_t *ppos) 3 { 4     int ret; 5  6     ret = proc_dointvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, length, ppos); 7     if (ret) 8         return ret; 9     if (write) {                                                                                                                                                                             10         if (sysctl_drop_caches & 1)11             iterate_supers(drop_pagecache_sb, NULL);12         if (sysctl_drop_caches & 2)13             drop_slab();14     }   15     return 0;16 }

fs/drop_caches.c

 

drop_slab will call all the shrinkers to free memory, like ubifs_shrinker.

In ubifs_shinker, will free the znodes and tnc tree. Details please refer to ubifs_shrinker in fs/ubifs/shrinker.c.

Author: Marty

Date: 2016-8-24

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What happened in UBIFS during drop cache?