https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=95421 Bug ID: 95421 Summary: Outdated documentation on posix_fadvise? Product: Documentation Version: unspecified Hardware: All OS: Linux Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P1 Component: man-pages Assignee: documentation_man-pages@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Reporter: maik@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Regression: No http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/posix_fadvise.2.html suggests that POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED has no effect on dirty pages. However, if I'm reading https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/mm/fadvise.c?id=v3.19#n115 correctly, it will in fact schedule dirty pages for writeout if the underlying device is not already congested. Can you please verify actual behavior and update the manpage if indicated? -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching the assignee of the bug. -- 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
