Blame sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/posix_madvise.c

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/* Copyright (C) 2007-2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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   This file is part of the GNU C Library.
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   The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
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   modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
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   License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
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   version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
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   The GNU C Library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
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   Lesser General Public License for more details.
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   You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
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   License along with the GNU C Library; if not, see
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   <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.  */
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#include <sysdep.h>
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#include <sys/mman.h>
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int
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posix_madvise (void *addr, size_t len, int advice)
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{
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  /* We have one problem: the kernel's MADV_DONTNEED does not
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     correspond to POSIX's POSIX_MADV_DONTNEED.  The former simply
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     discards changes made to the memory without writing it back to
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     disk, if this would be necessary.  The POSIX behavior does not
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     allow this.  There is no functionality mapping the POSIX behavior
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     so far so we ignore that advice for now.  */
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  if (advice == POSIX_MADV_DONTNEED)
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    return 0;
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  INTERNAL_SYSCALL_DECL (err);
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  int result = INTERNAL_SYSCALL (madvise, err, 3, addr, len, advice);
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  return INTERNAL_SYSCALL_ERRNO (result, err);
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}