Sorry, miss updating the return error. Please ignore this patch. Will send out a new patch later. Regards, Sheng-Hui On 2014年06月25日 07:31, Wang Sheng-Hui wrote: > > Currently we have more filesystems supporting fallcate, e.g ext4/btrfs, > which can response to MADV_REMOVE gracefully. > > Update the MADV_REMOVE description. > > Signed-off-by: Wang Sheng-Hui <shhuiw@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > man2/madvise.2 | 8 ++------ > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/man2/madvise.2 b/man2/madvise.2 > index 032ead7..510530c 100644 > --- a/man2/madvise.2 > +++ b/man2/madvise.2 > @@ -99,12 +99,8 @@ or zero-fill-on-demand pages for mappings > without an underlying file. > .TP > .BR MADV_REMOVE " (since Linux 2.6.16)" > -Free up a given range of pages > -and its associated backing store. > -Currently, > -.\" 2.6.18-rc5 > -only shmfs/tmpfs supports this; other filesystems return with the > -error > +Free up a given range of pages and its associated backing store. > +Filesystems that don't support fallocate will return error > .BR ENOSYS . > .\" Databases want to use this feature to drop a section of their > .\" bufferpool (shared memory segments) - without writing back to > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
