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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-07-31 19:25:39 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-07-31 19:25:39 -0700
commitac694dbdbc403c00e2c14d10bc7b8412cc378259 (patch)
treee37328cfbeaf43716dd5914cad9179e57e84df76 /mm/fadvise.c
parenta40a1d3d0a2fd613fdec6d89d3c053268ced76ed (diff)
parent437ea90cc3afdca5229b41c6b1d38c4842756cb9 (diff)
Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's patch-bomb)
Merge Andrew's second set of patches: - MM - a few random fixes - a couple of RTC leftovers * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (120 commits) rtc/rtc-88pm80x: remove unneed devm_kfree rtc/rtc-88pm80x: assign ret only when rtc_register_driver fails mm: hugetlbfs: close race during teardown of hugetlbfs shared page tables tmpfs: distribute interleave better across nodes mm: remove redundant initialization mm: warn if pg_data_t isn't initialized with zero mips: zero out pg_data_t when it's allocated memcg: gix memory accounting scalability in shrink_page_list mm/sparse: remove index_init_lock mm/sparse: more checks on mem_section number mm/sparse: optimize sparse_index_alloc memcg: add mem_cgroup_from_css() helper memcg: further prevent OOM with too many dirty pages memcg: prevent OOM with too many dirty pages mm: mmu_notifier: fix freed page still mapped in secondary MMU mm: memcg: only check anon swapin page charges for swap cache mm: memcg: only check swap cache pages for repeated charging mm: memcg: split swapin charge function into private and public part mm: memcg: remove needless !mm fixup to init_mm when charging mm: memcg: remove unneeded shmem charge type ...
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/fadvise.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/fadvise.c18
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/mm/fadvise.c b/mm/fadvise.c
index 469491e0af7..9b75a045dbf 100644
--- a/mm/fadvise.c
+++ b/mm/fadvise.c
@@ -93,11 +93,6 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE(fadvise64_64)(int fd, loff_t offset, loff_t len, int advice)
spin_unlock(&file->f_lock);
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;
@@ -106,12 +101,13 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE(fadvise64_64)(int fd, loff_t offset, loff_t len, int advice)
nrpages = end_index - start_index + 1;
if (!nrpages)
nrpages = ~0UL;
-
- ret = force_page_cache_readahead(mapping, file,
- start_index,
- nrpages);
- if (ret > 0)
- ret = 0;
+
+ /*
+ * Ignore return value because fadvise() shall return
+ * success even if filesystem can't retrieve a hint,
+ */
+ force_page_cache_readahead(mapping, file, start_index,
+ nrpages);
break;
case POSIX_FADV_NOREUSE:
break;