Fedora kernel-2.6.17-1.2142_FC4 patched with stable patch-2.6.17.4-vs2.0.2-rc26.diff
[linux-2.6.git] / mm / fadvise.c
index 57264d7..0a03357 100644 (file)
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 #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.
+ *
+ * LINUX_FADV_ASYNC_WRITE: start async writeout of any dirty pages between file
+ * offsets `offset' and `offset+len' inclusive.  Any pages which are currently
+ * under writeout are skipped, whether or not they are dirty.
+ *
+ * LINUX_FADV_WRITE_WAIT: wait upon writeout of any dirty pages between file
+ * offsets `offset' and `offset+len'.
+ *
+ * By combining these two operations the application may do several things:
+ *
+ * LINUX_FADV_ASYNC_WRITE: push some or all of the dirty pages at the disk.
+ *
  */
 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;
+       loff_t endbyte;                 /* inclusive */
        pgoff_t start_index;
        pgoff_t end_index;
        unsigned long nrpages;
@@ -37,16 +50,27 @@ asmlinkage long sys_fadvise64_64(int fd, loff_t offset, loff_t len, int advice)
        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;
 
@@ -69,7 +93,7 @@ asmlinkage long sys_fadvise64_64(int fd, loff_t offset, loff_t len, int advice)
 
                /* First and last PARTIAL page! */
                start_index = offset >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
-               end_index = (endbyte-1) >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
+               end_index = endbyte >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
 
                /* Careful about overflow on the "+1" */
                nrpages = end_index - start_index + 1;
@@ -87,11 +111,12 @@ asmlinkage long sys_fadvise64_64(int fd, loff_t offset, loff_t len, int advice)
                        filemap_flush(mapping);
 
                /* First and last FULL page! */
-               start_index = (offset + (PAGE_CACHE_SIZE-1)) >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
+               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-1);
+               if (end_index >= start_index)
+                       invalidate_mapping_pages(mapping, start_index,
+                                               end_index);
                break;
        default:
                ret = -EINVAL;