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authorAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>2005-01-04 05:36:15 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org>2005-01-04 05:36:15 -0800
commit0f6c5fa141e625b68f69083eebf2eb727c40882b (patch)
tree31ddaadb9b260aaab4d0e15ea286ef8510d08993 /mm
parent4b36077f9cbc7bd58dc616a778b3290f1ea43c98 (diff)
downloadhistory-0f6c5fa141e625b68f69083eebf2eb727c40882b.tar.gz
[PATCH] msync(): set PF_SYNCWRITE
Pass the "we are doing synchronous writes" hint down from msync(). Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/msync.c4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/msync.c b/mm/msync.c
index e04ff38eca1664..cf499f463626d6 100644
--- a/mm/msync.c
+++ b/mm/msync.c
@@ -214,6 +214,9 @@ asmlinkage long sys_msync(unsigned long start, size_t len, int flags)
struct vm_area_struct * vma;
int unmapped_error, error = -EINVAL;
+ if (flags & MS_SYNC)
+ current->flags |= PF_SYNCWRITE;
+
down_read(&current->mm->mmap_sem);
if (flags & ~(MS_ASYNC | MS_INVALIDATE | MS_SYNC))
goto out;
@@ -264,5 +267,6 @@ asmlinkage long sys_msync(unsigned long start, size_t len, int flags)
}
out:
up_read(&current->mm->mmap_sem);
+ current->flags &= ~PF_SYNCWRITE;
return error;
}