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Add a drain_page_cache() function to drain a per-cpu page cache. The reason behind of it is a system can run into a low memory condition, in that case a page shrinker can ask for its users to free their caches in order to get extra memory available for other needs in a system. When a system hits such condition, a page cache is drained for all CPUs in a system. By default a page cache work is delayed with 5 seconds interval until a memory pressure disappears, if needed it can be changed. See a rcu_delay_page_cache_fill_msec module parameter. Co-developed-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Zqiang <qiang.zhang@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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