Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Wed, 11 May 2005 16:30:35 +0200 | From | Carsten Otte <> | Subject | [RFC/PATCH 5/5] madvice/fadvice: add execute in place support |
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[RFC/PATCH 5/5] madvice/fadvice: add execute in place support 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...
Signed-off-by: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com> --- diff -ruN linux-2.6-git/mm/fadvise.c linux-2.6-git-xip/mm/fadvise.c --- linux-2.6-git/mm/fadvise.c 2005-05-10 11:17:27.000000000 +0200 +++ linux-2.6-git-xip/mm/fadvise.c 2005-05-10 13:39:55.886811280 +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-2.6-git/mm/madvise.c linux-2.6-git-xip/mm/madvise.c --- linux-2.6-git/mm/madvise.c 2005-05-10 11:17:27.000000000 +0200 +++ linux-2.6-git-xip/mm/madvise.c 2005-05-10 13:39:55.894810064 +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;
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