Add madvise and mincore
Andreas Jaeger
aj@suse.de
Mon Mar 20 00:12:00 GMT 2000
>>>>> Ulrich Drepper writes:
Ulrich> Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de> writes:
>> Linux 2.3.99pre1 (and pre2-1) add madvise and mincore syscalls. I'm
>> appending a patch for glibc to support these. I didn't add MADV_FREE
>> for Sparc since it's not implemented in the kernel. Sparc folks,
>> please check wether it's needed.
Ulrich> I've added the patch you sent but it seems not to be correct. First,
Ulrich> you did modify the SPARC file. Alos, is this stuff not implemented
Ulrich> for anything but x86 and SPARC?
I'm appending patches for Alpha and ARM.
Ulrich> The prototype is in sys/mman.h now (this is where I think it belongs).
Ulrich> We might have to add an appropriate stub file.
A patch is appended.
Andreas
2000-03-20 Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de>
* sysdeps/generic/mincore.c: New stub file.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/alpha/bits/mman.h (MADV_*): Add flags
from latest Linux kernel.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/arm/bits/mman.h (MADV_*): Likewise.
============================================================
Index: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/alpha/bits/mman.h
--- sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/alpha/bits/mman.h 1998/01/26 22:52:51 1.3
+++ sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/alpha/bits/mman.h 2000/03/20 08:03:50
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
/* Definitions for POSIX memory map interface. Linux/Alpha version.
- Copyright (C) 1997, 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+ Copyright (C) 1997, 1998, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This file is part of the GNU C Library.
The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
@@ -80,4 +80,13 @@
/* Flags for `mremap'. */
#ifdef __USE_GNU
# define MREMAP_MAYMOVE 1
+#endif
+
+/* Advice to `madvise'. */
+#ifdef __USE_BSD
+# define MADV_NORMAL 0 /* No further special treatment. */
+# define MADV_RANDOM 1 /* Expect random page references. */
+# define MADV_SEQUENTIAL 2 /* Expect sequential page references. */
+# define MADV_WILLNEED 3 /* Will need these pages. */
+# define MADV_DONTNEED 6 /* Don't need these pages. */
#endif
============================================================
Index: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/arm/bits/mman.h
--- sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/arm/bits/mman.h 1997/12/04 00:02:58 1.1
+++ sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/arm/bits/mman.h 2000/03/20 08:03:50
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
/* Definitions for POSIX memory map interface. Linux/ARM version.
- Copyright (C) 1997 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+ Copyright (C) 1997, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This file is part of the GNU C Library.
The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
@@ -72,4 +72,13 @@
/* Flags for `mremap'. */
#ifdef __USE_GNU
# define MREMAP_MAYMOVE 1
+#endif
+
+/* Advice to `madvise'. */
+#ifdef __USE_BSD
+# define MADV_NORMAL 0 /* No further special treatment. */
+# define MADV_RANDOM 1 /* Expect random page references. */
+# define MADV_SEQUENTIAL 2 /* Expect sequential page references. */
+# define MADV_WILLNEED 3 /* Will need these pages. */
+# define MADV_DONTNEED 4 /* Don't need these pages. */
#endif
============================================================
Index: sysdeps/generic/mincore.c
--- sysdeps/generic/mincore.c created
+++ sysdeps/generic/mincore.c Mon Mar 20 09:02:28 2000 1.1
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+/* Copyright (C) 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+ This file is part of the GNU C Library.
+
+ The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+ modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as
+ published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the
+ License, or (at your option) any later version.
+
+ The GNU C Library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
+ Library General Public License for more details.
+
+ You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public
+ License along with the GNU C Library; see the file COPYING.LIB. If not,
+ write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
+ Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */
+
+#include <sys/mman.h>
+#include <errno.h>
+
+int
+mincore (void *__start, size_t __len, unsigned char *__vec)
+{
+ __set_errno (ENOSYS);
+ return -1;
+}
+
+stub_warning (mincore)
+#include <stub-tag.h>
--
Andreas Jaeger
SuSE Labs aj@suse.de
private aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de
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