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-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;