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Johannes Weiner ead87f1165 kernel: sysctl: make drop_caches write-only
[ Upstream commit 204cb79ad42f015312a5bbd7012d09c93d9b46fb ]

Currently, the drop_caches proc file and sysctl read back the last value
written, suggesting this is somehow a stateful setting instead of a
one-time command.  Make it write-only, like e.g.  compact_memory.

While mitigating a VM problem at scale in our fleet, there was confusion
about whether writing to this file will permanently switch the kernel into
a non-caching mode.  This influences the decision making in a tense
situation, where tens of people are trying to fix tens of thousands of
affected machines: Do we need a rollback strategy?  What are the
performance implications of operating in a non-caching state for several
days?  It also caused confusion when the kernel team said we may need to
write the file several times to make sure it's effective ("But it already
reads back 3?").

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191031221602.9375-1-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Chris Down <chris@chrisdown.name>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2020-01-04 19:18:32 +01:00
arch s390: disable preemption when switching to nodat stack with CALL_ON_STACK 2020-01-04 19:18:31 +01:00
block iocost: over-budget forced IOs should schedule async delay 2019-12-31 16:46:19 +01:00
certs PKCS#7: Refactor verify_pkcs7_signature() 2019-08-05 18:40:18 -04:00
crypto KEYS: asymmetric: return ENOMEM if akcipher_request_alloc() fails 2019-12-31 16:46:07 +01:00
Documentation dt-bindings: Improve validation build error handling 2020-01-04 19:18:11 +01:00
drivers mailbox: imx: Fix Tx doorbell shutdown path 2020-01-04 19:18:30 +01:00
fs mm/hugetlbfs: fix error handling when setting up mounts 2020-01-04 19:18:31 +01:00
include libfdt: define INT32_MAX and UINT32_MAX in libfdt_env.h 2020-01-04 19:18:28 +01:00
init Merge branch 'next-lockdown' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security 2019-09-28 08:14:15 -07:00
ipc ipc/sem.c: convert to use built-in RCU list checking 2019-09-25 17:51:41 -07:00
kernel kernel: sysctl: make drop_caches write-only 2020-01-04 19:18:32 +01:00
lib ubsan, x86: Annotate and allow __ubsan_handle_shift_out_of_bounds() in uaccess regions 2019-12-31 16:44:25 +01:00
LICENSES
mm mm: vmscan: protect shrinker idr replace with CONFIG_MEMCG 2019-12-31 16:46:07 +01:00
net can: j1939: j1939_sk_bind(): take priv after lock is held 2019-12-31 16:45:56 +01:00
samples samples: pktgen: fix proc_cmd command result check logic 2019-12-31 16:43:45 +01:00
scripts scripts/kallsyms: fix definitely-lost memory leak 2020-01-04 19:18:23 +01:00
security apparmor: fix unsigned len comparison with less than zero 2020-01-04 19:18:22 +01:00
sound ASoC: soc-pcm: check symmetry before hw_params 2019-12-31 16:45:42 +01:00
tools selftests: vm: add fragment CONFIG_TEST_VMALLOC 2020-01-04 19:18:31 +01:00
usr kbuild: update compile-test header list for v5.4-rc2 2019-10-05 15:29:49 +09:00
virt KVM: arm/arm64: Properly handle faulting of device mappings 2019-12-31 16:46:24 +01:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with the latest for_each macro list 2019-08-31 10:00:51 +02:00
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.gitignore Modules updates for v5.4 2019-09-22 10:34:46 -07:00
.mailmap ARM: SoC fixes 2019-11-10 13:41:59 -08:00
COPYING
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Remove Simon as Renesas SoC Co-Maintainer 2019-10-10 08:12:51 -07:00
Kbuild kbuild: do not descend to ./Kbuild when cleaning 2019-08-21 21:03:58 +09:00
Kconfig docs: kbuild: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst 2019-06-14 14:21:21 -06:00
MAINTAINERS Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2019-11-22 14:28:14 -08:00
Makefile Linux 5.4.7 2019-12-31 16:46:36 +01:00
README

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.