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| author | Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> | 2015-01-12 10:51:13 +0100 |
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| committer | Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> | 2015-01-12 10:51:13 +0100 |
| commit | 2f5eaf66e580f64032b365a00157b6b58c266b37 (patch) | |
| tree | 7852017c864f0eb3833782e2a017952bd8531458 /mm/fadvise.c | |
| parent | c291ee622165cb2c8d4e7af63fffd499354a23be (diff) | |
| parent | 91d1179212161f220938198b742c328ad38fd0a3 (diff) | |
Merge tag 'irqchip-urgent-3.19' of git://git.infradead.org/users/jcooper/linux into irq/urgent
irqchip urgent fixes for v3.19 from Jason Cooper
- mtk-sysirq: Fix error handling
- hip04: Fix cpu map for 16bit value
- gic-v3-its: Clear a warning regarding decimal constants
- omap-intc: Fix legacy DMA regression
- atmel-aic-common: Retain priority when changing type
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/fadvise.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/fadvise.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/fadvise.c b/mm/fadvise.c index 3bcfd81db45..2ad7adf4f0a 100644 --- a/mm/fadvise.c +++ b/mm/fadvise.c @@ -117,7 +117,11 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(fadvise64_64, int, fd, loff_t, offset, loff_t, len, int, advice) __filemap_fdatawrite_range(mapping, offset, endbyte, WB_SYNC_NONE); - /* First and last FULL page! */ + /* + * First and last FULL page! Partial pages are deliberately + * preserved on the expectation that it is better to preserve + * needed memory than to discard unneeded memory. + */ start_index = (offset+(PAGE_CACHE_SIZE-1)) >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT; end_index = (endbyte >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT); |