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authorWill Deacon2012-06-07 14:21:13 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds2012-06-07 14:43:55 -0700
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treeba315d40c8b0457d132ea155d0db651275af6822 /Documentation/svga.txt
parent4e791c98ae7ff889121ca93b7bd97206e4a8d793 (diff)
ipc: shm: restore MADV_REMOVE functionality on shared memory segments
Commit 17cf28afea2a ("mm/fs: remove truncate_range") removed the truncate_range inode operation in favour of the fallocate file operation. When using SYSV IPC shared memory segments, calling madvise with the MADV_REMOVE advice on an area of shared memory will attempt to invoke the .fallocate function for the shm_file_operations, which is NULL and therefore returns -EOPNOTSUPP to userspace. The previous behaviour would inherit the inode_operations from the underlying tmpfs file and invoke truncate_range there. This patch restores the previous behaviour by wrapping the underlying fallocate function in shm_fallocate, as we do for fsync. [hughd@google.com: use -ENOTSUPP in shm_fallocate()] Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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