From: Wang Sheng-Hui <shhuiw-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
To: mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org,
linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org,
rientjes-hpIqsD4AKlfQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org
Subject: [PATCH v2] madvise.2: update the description for MADV_REMOVE
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 07:44:27 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <53AA0D5B.6060504@gmail.com> (raw)
Currently we have more filesystems supporting fallcate, e.g ext4/btrfs,
which can response to MADV_REMOVE gracefully.
And if filesystems don't support fallocate, the return error would be
EOPNOTSUPP, instead of ENOSYS.
Signed-off-by: Wang Sheng-Hui <shhuiw-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
---
man2/madvise.2 | 10 +++-------
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/man2/madvise.2 b/man2/madvise.2
index 032ead7..4ce869c 100644
--- a/man2/madvise.2
+++ b/man2/madvise.2
@@ -99,13 +99,9 @@ or zero-fill-on-demand pages for mappings
without an underlying file.
.TP
.BR MADV_REMOVE " (since Linux 2.6.16)"
-Free up a given range of pages
-and its associated backing store.
-Currently,
-.\" 2.6.18-rc5
-only shmfs/tmpfs supports this; other filesystems return with the
-error
-.BR ENOSYS .
+Free up a given range of pages and its associated backing store.
+Filesystems that don't support fallocate will return error
+.BR EOPNOTSUPP.
.\" Databases want to use this feature to drop a section of their
.\" bufferpool (shared memory segments) - without writing back to
.\" disk/swap space. This feature is also useful for supporting
--
1.8.3.2
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2014-06-24 23:44 Wang Sheng-Hui [this message]
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2014-06-25 0:02 ` [PATCH v2] madvise.2: update the description for MADV_REMOVE David Rientjes
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