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mm: make madvise(MADV_WILLNEED) support swap file prefetch
authorShaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>
Sat, 23 Feb 2013 00:32:31 +0000 (16:32 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Sun, 24 Feb 2013 01:50:10 +0000 (17:50 -0800)
commit1998cc048901109a29924380b8e91bc049b32951
tree71c6875e8a9a6da14899f74e2dd3168d99374bd5
parenta394cb8ee632ec5edce20309901ec66767497a43
mm: make madvise(MADV_WILLNEED) support swap file prefetch

Make madvise(MADV_WILLNEED) support swap file prefetch.  If memory is
swapout, this syscall can do swapin prefetch.  It has no impact if the
memory isn't swapout.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix CONFIG_SWAP=n build]
[sasha.levin@oracle.com: fix BUG on madvise early failure]
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/madvise.c