[PATCH v2] madvise.2: update the description for MADV_REMOVE

[PATCH v2] madvise.2: update the description for MADV_REMOVE

[Wang Sheng-Hui]

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
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Re: [PATCH v2] madvise.2: update the description for MADV_REMOVE

[David Rientjes]

On Wed, 25 Jun 2014, Wang Sheng-Hui wrote:

> 
> 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>

Could you reply to the thread where this is removed from the kernel source 
on LKML so others know that you have taken care of it?

Thanks.
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