1  /* Copyright (C) 2007-2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
       2     This file is part of the GNU C Library.
       3  
       4     The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
       5     modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
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       7     version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
       8  
       9     The GNU C Library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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      11     MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
      12     Lesser General Public License for more details.
      13  
      14     You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
      15     License along with the GNU C Library; if not, see
      16     <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.  */
      17  
      18  #include <sysdep.h>
      19  #include <sys/mman.h>
      20  
      21  
      22  int
      23  posix_madvise (void *addr, size_t len, int advice)
      24  {
      25    /* We have one problem: the kernel's MADV_DONTNEED does not
      26       correspond to POSIX's POSIX_MADV_DONTNEED.  The former simply
      27       discards changes made to the memory without writing it back to
      28       disk, if this would be necessary.  The POSIX behavior does not
      29       allow this.  There is no functionality mapping the POSIX behavior
      30       so far so we ignore that advice for now.  */
      31    if (advice == POSIX_MADV_DONTNEED)
      32      return 0;
      33  
      34    int result = INTERNAL_SYSCALL_CALL (madvise, addr, len, advice);
      35    return INTERNAL_SYSCALL_ERRNO (result);
      36  }