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Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-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 3bcfd81db45e..2ad7adf4f0a4 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); |