As from upstream commit:
commit 3f31d07571eeea18a7d34db9af21d2285b807a17
Author: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Date: Tue May 29 15:06:40 2012 -0700
mm/fs: route MADV_REMOVE to FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE
Now tmpfs supports hole-punching via fallocate(), switch madvise_remove()
to use do_fallocate() instead of vmtruncate_range(): which extends
madvise(,,MADV_REMOVE) support from tmpfs to ext4, ocfs2 and xfs.
madvise(,,MADV_REMOVE) support was extended by ext4, ocfs2 and xfs.
bug report: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1120294
Justification from Rafael Aquini:
Well, that code is committed in kernel since v3.5 (2012) and it
surely is the expected behaviour since. It seems to me that
madvise(2) man page text for MADV_REMOVE just got out-of-date in
that regard.
This patch mentions this support in madvise.2 man page.
Reworded and corrected by Michael Kerrisk and Hugh Dickins. Thank you.
Signed-off-by: Jan Chaloupka <jchaloup@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
madvise() is one of those system calls that has congealed over
time, as has the man page. It's helpful to split the discussion
of 'advice' into those flags into two groups:
* Those flags that are (1) widespread across implementations;
(2) have counterparts in posix_madvise(3); and (3) were present
in the initial Linux madvise implementation.
* The rest, which are values that (1) may not have counterparts
in other implementations; (2) have no counterparts in
posix_madvise(3); and (3) were added to Linux in more recent
times.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
I can find no evidence that madvise() was in POSIX.1b.
Certainly, it's not mentioned in Bill Gallmeister's
POSIX.4 book (O'Reilly).
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Over time, bit rot has afflicted this page. Since the original
text was written many new Linux-specific flags have been added.
So, now it's better to explicitly list the flags that
correspond to the POSIX analog of madvise().
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
The fields d_ino and d_off of structure __fat_dirent are explained.
The different return values of VFAT_IOCTL_READDIR_BOTH and
VFAT_IOCTL_READDIR_SHORT are explained.
The usage of the return value in the example is corrected.
Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
The ioctl(2) system call may be used to retrieve information about
the FAT file system and to set file attributes.
Signed-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
The lm bit should never have existed in the first place. Sigh.
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
The documentation for set_thread_area was very vague. This
improves it, accounts for recent kernel changes, and merges
it with get_thread_area.2.
get_thread_area.2 now becomes a link.
While I'm at it, clarify the related arch_prctl.2 man page.
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
This clarifies the behavior and documents all four functions.
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
mktemp(3)'s DESCRIPTION referenced NOTES, but no such
section exists. Corrected to refer to BUGS.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Michael Kerrisk