On Wednesday 27 April 2011 16:29:05 Andrea Righi wrote: > diff --git a/include/linux/fadvise.h b/include/linux/fadvise.h > index e8e7471..dc9ce98 100644 > --- a/include/linux/fadvise.h > +++ b/include/linux/fadvise.h > @@ -13,9 +13,11 @@ > #if defined(__s390x__) > #define POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED 6 /* Don't need these pages. */ > #define POSIX_FADV_NOREUSE 7 /* Data will be accessed once. */ > +#define POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED_FS 8 /* Don't need these filesystem pages. */ > #else > #define POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED 4 /* Don't need these pages. */ > #define POSIX_FADV_NOREUSE 5 /* Data will be accessed once. */ > +#define POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED_FS 6 /* Don't need these filesystem pages. */ > #endif > > #endif /* FADVISE_H_INCLUDED */ Please don't make the s390 mess worse than it already is here. I think the best solution would be to assign new values starting from 8 so they can be common for all architectures. > @@ -127,6 +128,12 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE(fadvise64_64)(int fd, loff_t offset, loff_t len, int advice) > invalidate_mapping_pages(mapping, start_index, > end_index); > break; > + case POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED_FS: > + if (!current_euid()) > + drop_pagecache_sb(file->f_dentry->d_sb, NULL); > + else > + ret = -EPERM; > + break; I somewhat disagree with keying the capability off the UID value, even if that is what the sysctl uses. CAP_SYS_ADMIN is not that nice either, but I think it's better than the UID here. Aside from these, I like the patch. Arnd -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
