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#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.
*/
struct shrink_control {
gfp_t gfp_mask;
/* How many slab objects shrinker() should scan and try to reclaim */
unsigned long nr_to_scan;
};
/*
* A callback you can register to apply pressure to ageable caches.
*
* 'sc' is passed shrink_control which includes a count 'nr_to_scan'
* and a 'gfpmask'. It 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).
* The callback must not return -1 if nr_to_scan is zero.
*
* 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 shrinker {
int (*shrink)(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;
long nr; /* 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