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Diffstat (limited to 'mm/vmscan.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/vmscan.c | 15 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c index 74296c2d1fed..b1512cefcffa 100644 --- a/mm/vmscan.c +++ b/mm/vmscan.c @@ -687,6 +687,21 @@ void unregister_shrinker(struct shrinker *shrinker) } EXPORT_SYMBOL(unregister_shrinker); +/** + * synchronize_shrinkers - Wait for all running shrinkers to complete. + * + * This is equivalent to calling unregister_shrink() and register_shrinker(), + * but atomically and with less overhead. This is useful to guarantee that all + * shrinker invocations have seen an update, before freeing memory, similar to + * rcu. + */ +void synchronize_shrinkers(void) +{ + down_write(&shrinker_rwsem); + up_write(&shrinker_rwsem); +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(synchronize_shrinkers); + #define SHRINK_BATCH 128 static unsigned long do_shrink_slab(struct shrink_control *shrinkctl, |