From e853d37efdf36692990650937ad1676e1a4f2ef4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Rosenfeld <mrosenfeld@google.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2021 18:38:05 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Add a system property to init that drops caches.

*   Users can't call /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches otherwise.
*   Requires change with associated SELinux permissions.

Bug: 178647679
Test: flashed user build and dropped caches; no avc denials.
Test: flashed userdebug build and dropped caches w/o root.
Change-Id: Ibc91991509f0902d1c04c958fefc0966233f0b2e
---
 rootdir/init.rc | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/rootdir/init.rc b/rootdir/init.rc
index 05da3dabf..ce2dd9e8d 100644
--- a/rootdir/init.rc
+++ b/rootdir/init.rc
@@ -1141,6 +1141,11 @@ on property:sys.boot_completed=1
 on property:sys.sysctl.extra_free_kbytes=*
     write /proc/sys/vm/extra_free_kbytes ${sys.sysctl.extra_free_kbytes}
 
+# Allow users to drop caches
+on property:perf.drop_caches=3
+    write /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches 3
+    setprop perf.drop_caches 0
+
 # "tcp_default_init_rwnd" Is too long!
 on property:net.tcp_def_init_rwnd=*
     write /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_default_init_rwnd ${net.tcp_def_init_rwnd}