[RFC PATCH v2 15/16] mm: Create the "free" file to release the previously allocated pages

This change creates the "free" file and defines its file_operations
to release the previously allocated pages. To release an allocation,
the user will run:

echo <file name> > /sys/kernel/debug/mm/free

Signed-off-by: Juan Yescas <[email protected]>
---

Changes in v2:
	- Set the file permissions to 0200.

 mm/page_alloc_hogger.c | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 40 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mm/page_alloc_hogger.c b/mm/page_alloc_hogger.c
index ce53a17ac790..6a6fbb78513a 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc_hogger.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc_hogger.c
@@ -83,6 +83,7 @@
 
 #define pr_fmt(fmt) KBUILD_MODNAME ": " fmt
 
+#include <linux/atomic.h>
 #include <linux/errno.h>
 #include <linux/debugfs.h>
 #include <linux/gfp.h>
@@ -331,6 +332,37 @@ static const struct file_operations req_page_alloc_fops = {
 	.write = req_page_alloc_write,
 };
 
+/**
+ * free_page_alloc_write() - free the previously allocated pages.
+ * @file: File where the user is writing.
+ * @ubuf: Contains the name of the file the user wants to delete and have the
+ *       memory associated with that file freed.
+ * @cnt: Size of @ubuf.
+ * @ppos: Current position in the file.
+ */
+static ssize_t free_page_alloc_write(struct file *file,
+				      const char __user *ubuf, size_t cnt,
+				      loff_t *ppos)
+{
+	int ret;
+	unsigned long alloc_id;
+
+	ret = kstrtoul_from_user(ubuf, cnt, 10, &alloc_id);
+	if (ret)
+		return ret;
+
+	ret = free_alloc_helper(alloc_id);
+	if (ret)
+		return ret;
+
+	return cnt;
+}
+
+static const struct file_operations free_page_alloc_fops = {
+	.owner = THIS_MODULE,
+	.write = free_page_alloc_write,
+};
+
 /**
  * create_nr_pages_allocs_file() - Creates the file "nr_pages_allocs".
  *
@@ -503,6 +535,7 @@ static inline int create_nodes_subdirs(struct dentry *mmdir)
 
 static int __init page_alloc_hogger_debugfs_init(void)
 {
+	struct dentry *free_file;
 	int ret;
 
 	req_alloc_cache = kmem_cache_create(
@@ -534,6 +567,13 @@ static int __init page_alloc_hogger_debugfs_init(void)
 	if (ret)
 		goto clean_dir;
 
+	free_file = debugfs_create_file("free", 0200, mmdir, NULL,
+					&free_page_alloc_fops);
+	if (IS_ERR(free_file)) {
+		ret = PTR_ERR(free_file);
+		goto clean_dir;
+	}
+
 	return 0;
 
 clean_dir:
-- 
2.55.0.629.g250fe7f194-goog