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linux/mm/fadvise.c
Andrew Morton 60c371bc75 [PATCH] fadvise() make POSIX_FADV_NOREUSE a no-op
The POSIX_FADV_NOREUSE hint means "the application will use this range of the
file a single time".  It seems to be intended that the implementation will use
this hint to perform drop-behind of that part of the file when the application
gets around to reading or writing it.

However for reasons which aren't obvious (or sane?) I mapped
POSIX_FADV_NOREUSE onto POSIX_FADV_WILLNEED.  ie: it does readahead.

That's daft.  So for now, make POSIX_FADV_NOREUSE a no-op.

This is a non-back-compatible change.  If someone was using POSIX_FADV_NOREUSE
to perform readahead, they lose.  The likelihood is low.

If/when we later implement POSIX_FADV_NOREUSE things will get interesting - to
do it fully we'll need to maintain file offset/length ranges and peform all
sorts of complex tricks, and managing the lifetime of those ranges' data
structures will be interesting..

A sensible implementation would probably ignore the file range and would
simply mark the entire file as needing some form of drop-behind treatment.

Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-08-06 08:57:47 -07:00

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/*
* mm/fadvise.c
*
* Copyright (C) 2002, Linus Torvalds
*
* 11Jan2003 akpm@digeo.com
* Initial version.
*/
#include <linux/kernel.h>
#include <linux/file.h>
#include <linux/fs.h>
#include <linux/mm.h>
#include <linux/pagemap.h>
#include <linux/backing-dev.h>
#include <linux/pagevec.h>
#include <linux/fadvise.h>
#include <linux/writeback.h>
#include <linux/syscalls.h>
#include <asm/unistd.h>
/*
* POSIX_FADV_WILLNEED could set PG_Referenced, and POSIX_FADV_NOREUSE could
* deactivate the pages and clear PG_Referenced.
*/
asmlinkage long sys_fadvise64_64(int fd, loff_t offset, loff_t len, int advice)
{
struct file *file = fget(fd);
struct address_space *mapping;
struct backing_dev_info *bdi;
loff_t endbyte; /* inclusive */
pgoff_t start_index;
pgoff_t end_index;
unsigned long nrpages;
int ret = 0;
if (!file)
return -EBADF;
if (S_ISFIFO(file->f_dentry->d_inode->i_mode)) {
ret = -ESPIPE;
goto out;
}
mapping = file->f_mapping;
if (!mapping || len < 0) {
ret = -EINVAL;
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)
endbyte = -1;
else
endbyte--; /* inclusive */
bdi = mapping->backing_dev_info;
switch (advice) {
case POSIX_FADV_NORMAL:
file->f_ra.ra_pages = bdi->ra_pages;
break;
case POSIX_FADV_RANDOM:
file->f_ra.ra_pages = 0;
break;
case POSIX_FADV_SEQUENTIAL:
file->f_ra.ra_pages = bdi->ra_pages * 2;
break;
case POSIX_FADV_WILLNEED:
if (!mapping->a_ops->readpage) {
ret = -EINVAL;
break;
}
/* First and last PARTIAL page! */
start_index = offset >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
end_index = endbyte >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
/* Careful about overflow on the "+1" */
nrpages = end_index - start_index + 1;
if (!nrpages)
nrpages = ~0UL;
ret = force_page_cache_readahead(mapping, file,
start_index,
max_sane_readahead(nrpages));
if (ret > 0)
ret = 0;
break;
case POSIX_FADV_NOREUSE:
break;
case POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED:
if (!bdi_write_congested(mapping->backing_dev_info))
filemap_flush(mapping);
/* First and last FULL page! */
start_index = (offset+(PAGE_CACHE_SIZE-1)) >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
end_index = (endbyte >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT);
if (end_index >= start_index)
invalidate_mapping_pages(mapping, start_index,
end_index);
break;
default:
ret = -EINVAL;
}
out:
fput(file);
return ret;
}
#ifdef __ARCH_WANT_SYS_FADVISE64
asmlinkage long sys_fadvise64(int fd, loff_t offset, size_t len, int advice)
{
return sys_fadvise64_64(fd, offset, len, advice);
}
#endif