From patchwork Wed Dec  5 18:26:58 2018
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Subject: fff-sysupgrade/fff-web: Free cache before upgrade
From: Adrian Schmutzler <freifunk@adrianschmutzler.de>
X-Patchwork-Id: 966
Message-Id: <20181205182658.6012-1-freifunk@adrianschmutzler.de>
To: franken-dev@freifunk.net
Date: Wed,  5 Dec 2018 19:26:58 +0100

This might reduce the chance to break devices with 32 MB RAM
during sysupgrade.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Schmutzler <freifunk@adrianschmutzler.de>
Reviewed-by: Fabian Bläse <fabian@blaese.de>
Reviewed-by: Fabian Bläse <fabian@blaese.de <mailto:fabian@blaese.de> > 
---
 src/packages/fff/fff-sysupgrade/files/etc/sysupgrade.sh     | 4 ++++
 src/packages/fff/fff-web/files/www/ssl/cgi-bin/upgrade.html | 2 ++
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/packages/fff/fff-sysupgrade/files/etc/sysupgrade.sh b/src/packages/fff/fff-sysupgrade/files/etc/sysupgrade.sh
index dca21a1f..50fa854f 100755
--- a/src/packages/fff/fff-sysupgrade/files/etc/sysupgrade.sh
+++ b/src/packages/fff/fff-sysupgrade/files/etc/sysupgrade.sh
@@ -100,6 +100,10 @@ else
     case $yn in
         [Yy]*|[Jj]*)
             echo ""
+            echo "Freeing caches ..."
+            echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
+
+            echo ""
             echo "Starting firmware upgrade. Don't touch me until I reboot."
             echo ""
             echo ""
diff --git a/src/packages/fff/fff-web/files/www/ssl/cgi-bin/upgrade.html b/src/packages/fff/fff-web/files/www/ssl/cgi-bin/upgrade.html
index 9762edc3..96199c22 100755
--- a/src/packages/fff/fff-web/files/www/ssl/cgi-bin/upgrade.html
+++ b/src/packages/fff/fff-web/files/www/ssl/cgi-bin/upgrade.html
@@ -70,6 +70,8 @@ if [ "$do_reset" = "1" ] ; then
 	echo "</pre>"
 elif [ "$do_sysupgrade" = "1" ] ; then
 	echo "<pre>"
+	echo "# Freeing caches ..."
+	echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
 	echo "# sysupgrade $args $HASERL_firmware_path"
 	sysupgrade $args $HASERL_firmware_path
 	echo "</pre>"