Re: [PATCH v5 2/3] cachestat: implement cachestat syscall

Geert Uytterhoeven
2023-01-13T09:36:13Z

On Thu, Jan 5, 2023 at 12:13 AM Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com> wrote:
> Implement a new syscall that queries cache state of a file and
> summarizes the number of cached pages, number of dirty pages, number of
> pages marked for writeback, number of (recently) evicted pages, etc. in
> a given range.
>
> NAME
> cachestat - query the page cache statistics of a file.
>
> SYNOPSIS
> #include <sys/mman.h>
>
> struct cachestat {
> __u64 nr_cache;
> __u64 nr_dirty;
> __u64 nr_writeback;
> __u64 nr_evicted;
> __u64 nr_recently_evicted;
> };
>
> int cachestat(unsigned int fd, off_t off, size_t len,
> size_t cstat_size, struct cachestat *cstat,
> unsigned int flags);
>
> DESCRIPTION
> cachestat() queries the number of cached pages, number of dirty
> pages, number of pages marked for writeback, number of evicted
> pages, number of recently evicted pages, in the bytes range given by
> `off` and `len`.
>
> An evicted page is a page that is previously in the page cache but
> has been evicted since. A page is recently evicted if its last
> eviction was recent enough that its reentry to the cache would
> indicate that it is actively being used by the system, and that
> there is memory pressure on the system.
>
> These values are returned in a cachestat struct, whose address is
> given by the `cstat` argument.
>
> The `off` and `len` arguments must be non-negative integers. If
> `len` > 0, the queried range is [`off`, `off` + `len`]. If `len` ==
> 0, we will query in the range from `off` to the end of the file.
>
> `cstat_size` allows users to obtain partial results. The syscall
> will copy the first `csstat_size` bytes to the specified userspace
> memory. `cstat_size` must be a non-negative value that is no larger
> than the current size of the cachestat struct.
>
> The `flags` argument is unused for now, but is included for future
> extensibility. User should pass 0 (i.e no flag specified).
>
> RETURN VALUE
> On success, cachestat returns 0. On error, -1 is returned, and errno
> is set to indicate the error.
>
> ERRORS
> EFAULT cstat points to an invalid address.
>
> EINVAL invalid `cstat_size` or `flags`
>
> EBADF invalid file descriptor.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>

> arch/m68k/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl | 1 +

Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> [m68k]

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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