* [RFC/PATCH 5/5] madvice/fadvice: add execute in place support
@ 2005-05-11 14:30 Carsten Otte
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From: Carsten Otte @ 2005-05-11 14:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cotte; +Cc: linux-kernel, linux-fsdevel, schwidefsky, akpm
[RFC/PATCH 5/5] madvice/fadvice: add execute in place support
This patch makes sys_madvice and sys_fadvice return 0 on advices to
cache data assoctiated with files that do have get_xip_page. Since the
data for those is in memory anyway, we can just ignore the advice...
Signed-off-by: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>
---
diff -ruN linux-2.6-git/mm/fadvise.c linux-2.6-git-xip/mm/fadvise.c
--- linux-2.6-git/mm/fadvise.c 2005-05-10 11:17:27.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6-git-xip/mm/fadvise.c 2005-05-10 13:39:55.886811280 +0200
@@ -43,6 +43,10 @@
goto out;
}
+ if (mapping->a_ops->get_xip_page)
+ /* no bad return value, but ignore advice */
+ goto out;
+
/* Careful about overflows. Len == 0 means "as much as possible" */
endbyte = offset + len;
if (!len || endbyte < len)
diff -ruN linux-2.6-git/mm/madvise.c linux-2.6-git-xip/mm/madvise.c
--- linux-2.6-git/mm/madvise.c 2005-05-10 11:17:27.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6-git-xip/mm/madvise.c 2005-05-10 13:39:55.894810064 +0200
@@ -65,6 +65,10 @@
if (!file)
return -EBADF;
+ if (file->f_mapping->a_ops->get_xip_page)
+ /* no bad return value, but ignore advice */
+ return 0;
+
start = ((start - vma->vm_start) >> PAGE_SHIFT) + vma->vm_pgoff;
if (end > vma->vm_end)
end = vma->vm_end;
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