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| -rw-r--r-- | mm/fadvise.c | 18 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/mm/fadvise.c b/mm/fadvise.c index 469491e0..9b75a04 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; |
