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authorTakashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>2012-08-20 23:26:04 +0400
committerTakashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>2012-08-20 23:26:04 +0400
commitf0b433e9f362e0b7f0ce7d1489dd7feba068605d (patch)
treed4bfd9489cf4a96a55d83af20919f477a846d585 /mm/fadvise.c
parentfa2f5bf09610d3c216d4c74855edbe00d636467c (diff)
parent28c42c28309244d0b15d1b385e33429d59997679 (diff)
downloadlinux-f0b433e9f362e0b7f0ce7d1489dd7feba068605d.tar.xz
Merge tag 'asoc-3.6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/sound into for-linus
ASoC: Additional updates for 3.6 A batch more bugfixes, all driver-specific and fairly small and unremarkable in a global context. The biggest batch are for the newly added Arizona drivers.
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/fadvise.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/fadvise.c18
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/mm/fadvise.c b/mm/fadvise.c
index 469491e0af79..9b75a045dbf4 100644
--- a/mm/fadvise.c
+++ b/mm/fadvise.c
@@ -93,11 +93,6 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE(fadvise64_64)(int fd, loff_t offset, loff_t len, int advice)
spin_unlock(&file->f_lock);
break;
case POSIX_FADV_WILLNEED:
- if (!mapping->a_ops->readpage) {
- ret = -EINVAL;
- break;
- }
-
/* First and last PARTIAL page! */
start_index = offset >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
end_index = endbyte >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
@@ -106,12 +101,13 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE(fadvise64_64)(int fd, loff_t offset, loff_t len, int advice)
nrpages = end_index - start_index + 1;
if (!nrpages)
nrpages = ~0UL;
-
- ret = force_page_cache_readahead(mapping, file,
- start_index,
- nrpages);
- if (ret > 0)
- ret = 0;
+
+ /*
+ * Ignore return value because fadvise() shall return
+ * success even if filesystem can't retrieve a hint,
+ */
+ force_page_cache_readahead(mapping, file, start_index,
+ nrpages);
break;
case POSIX_FADV_NOREUSE:
break;