Jakub Jelinek wrote:

+       /* FIXME: POSIX says that MADV_DONTNEED cannot throw away data. */
        case MADV_DONTNEED:
+       case MADV_FREE:
                error = madvise_dontneed(vma, prev, start, end);
                break;
I think you should only use the new behavior for madvise MADV_FREE, not for MADV_DONTNEED.

I will.  However, we need to double-use MADV_DONTNEED in this
patch for now, so Ulrich's test glibc can be used easily :)

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