> 在 2017年12月23日，12:16，十刀 <shidao....@alibaba-inc.com> 写道：
>
> From: "shidao.ytt" <shidao....@alibaba-inc.com>
>
> in commit 441c228f817f7 ("mm: fadvise: document the
> fadvise(FADV_DONTNEED) behaviour for partial pages") Mel Gorman
> explained why partial pages should be preserved instead of discarded
> when using fadvise(FADV_DONTNEED), however the actual codes to calcuate
> end_index was unexpectedly wrong, the code behavior didn't match to the
> statement in comments; Luckily in another commit 18aba41cbf
> ("mm/fadvise.c: do not discard partial pages with POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED")
> Oleg Drokin fixed this behavior
>
> Here I come up with a new idea that actually we can still discard the
> last parital page iff the page-unaligned endbyte is also the end of
> file, since no one else will use the rest of the page and it should be
> safe enough to discard.
+akpm...
Hi Mel, Andrew:
Would you please take a look at this patch, to see if this proposal
is reasonable enough, thanks in advance!
Thanks,
Caspar
>
> Signed-off-by: shidao.ytt <shidao....@alibaba-inc.com>
> Signed-off-by: Caspar Zhang <jinli....@alibaba-inc.com>
> ---
> mm/fadvise.c | 3 ++-
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/fadvise.c b/mm/fadvise.c
> index ec70d6e..f74b21e 100644
> --- a/mm/fadvise.c
> +++ b/mm/fadvise.c
> @@ -127,7 +127,8 @@
> */
> start_index = (offset+(PAGE_SIZE-1)) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
> end_index = (endbyte >> PAGE_SHIFT);
> - if ((endbyte & ~PAGE_MASK) != ~PAGE_MASK) {
> + if ((endbyte & ~PAGE_MASK) != ~PAGE_MASK &&
> + endbyte != inode->i_size - 1) {
> /* First page is tricky as 0 - 1 = -1, but pgoff_t
> * is unsigned, so the end_index >= start_index
> * check below would be true and we'll discard the whole
> --
> 1.8.3.1
