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Add a scan interface which allows to trigger scanning of a particular shrinker and specify memcg and numa node. It's useful for testing, debugging and profiling of a specific scan_objects() callback. Unlike alternatives (creating a real memory pressure and dropping caches via /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches) this interface allows to interact with only one shrinker at once. Also, if a shrinker is misreporting the number of objects (as some do), it doesn't affect scanning. [roman.gushchin@linux.dev: improve typing, fix arg count checking] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YpgKttTowT22mKPQ@carbon [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix arg count checking] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220601032227.4076670-7-roman.gushchin@linux.dev Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Acked-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com> Cc: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr> Cc: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Cc: Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com> Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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