Carsten Otte
2005-05-18T14:01:27Z

[RFC/PATCH 5/5] madvice/fadvice: execute in place (V2)
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...

This patch is unchanged from previous version.

Signed-off-by: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>
---
diff -ruN linux-git/mm/fadvise.c linux-git-xip/mm/fadvise.c
--- linux-git/mm/fadvise.c 2005-05-17 14:23:36.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-git-xip/mm/fadvise.c 2005-05-17 20:16:40.000000000 +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-git/mm/madvise.c linux-git-xip/mm/madvise.c
--- linux-git/mm/madvise.c 2005-05-17 14:23:36.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-git-xip/mm/madvise.c 2005-05-17 20:16:40.000000000 +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;