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28e19a95e5SMark Johnston.Dd September 26, 2015
29ea41f49fSJohn Baldwin.Dt VOP_ADVISE 9
30ea41f49fSJohn Baldwin.Os
31ea41f49fSJohn Baldwin.Sh NAME
32ea41f49fSJohn Baldwin.Nm VOP_ADVISE
33ea41f49fSJohn Baldwin.Nd apply advice about use of file data
34ea41f49fSJohn Baldwin.Sh SYNOPSIS
35ea41f49fSJohn Baldwin.In sys/param.h
36ea41f49fSJohn Baldwin.In sys/vnode.h
37ea41f49fSJohn Baldwin.Ft int
38ea41f49fSJohn Baldwin.Fn VOP_ADVISE "struct vnode *vp" "off_t start" "off_t end" "int advice"
39ea41f49fSJohn Baldwin.Sh DESCRIPTION
40ea41f49fSJohn BaldwinThis call applies advice for a range of a file's data.
41ea41f49fSJohn BaldwinIt is used to implement the
42*a51584a2SGraham Percival.Xr posix_fadvise 2
43ea41f49fSJohn Baldwinsystem call.
44ea41f49fSJohn Baldwin.Pp
45ea41f49fSJohn BaldwinIts arguments are:
46ea41f49fSJohn Baldwin.Bl -tag -width offset
47ea41f49fSJohn Baldwin.It Fa vp
48ea41f49fSJohn BaldwinThe vnode of the file.
49ea41f49fSJohn Baldwin.It Fa start
50ea41f49fSJohn BaldwinThe start of the range of file data.
51ea41f49fSJohn Baldwin.It Fa end
52ea41f49fSJohn BaldwinThe end of the range of file data.
53e19a95e5SMark JohnstonA value of
54e19a95e5SMark Johnston.Dv OFF_MAX
55e19a95e5SMark Johnstonindicates that the advice is to be applied up to the end of the file.
56ea41f49fSJohn Baldwin.It Fa advice
57ea41f49fSJohn BaldwinThe type of operation to apply to the file data.
58ea41f49fSJohn BaldwinPossible values are:
59ea41f49fSJohn Baldwin.Bl -tag -width POSIX_FADV_WILLNEED
60ea41f49fSJohn Baldwin.It Dv POSIX_FADV_WILLNEED
61ea41f49fSJohn BaldwinInitiate an asynchronous read of the file data if it is not already resident.
62ea41f49fSJohn Baldwin.It Dv POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED
63ea41f49fSJohn BaldwinDecrease the in-memory priority of clean file data or discard clean file data.
64ea41f49fSJohn Baldwin.El
65ea41f49fSJohn Baldwin.El
66ea41f49fSJohn Baldwin.Pp
67ea41f49fSJohn BaldwinIf the
68ea41f49fSJohn Baldwin.Fa start
69ea41f49fSJohn Baldwinand
70ea41f49fSJohn Baldwin.Fa end
71ea41f49fSJohn Baldwinoffsets are both zero,
72ea41f49fSJohn Baldwinthen the operation should be applied to the entire file.
73ea41f49fSJohn BaldwinNote that this call is advisory only and may perform the requested
74ea41f49fSJohn Baldwinoperation on a subset of the requested range
75ea41f49fSJohn Baldwin.Pq including not performing it at all
76ea41f49fSJohn Baldwinand still return success.
77ea41f49fSJohn Baldwin.Sh LOCKS
78ea41f49fSJohn BaldwinThe file should be unlocked on entry.
79ea41f49fSJohn Baldwin.Sh RETURN VALUES
80ea41f49fSJohn BaldwinZero is returned if the call is successful, otherwise an appropriate
81ea41f49fSJohn Baldwinerror code is returned.
82ea41f49fSJohn Baldwin.Sh ERRORS
83ea41f49fSJohn Baldwin.Bl -tag -width Er
84ea41f49fSJohn Baldwin.It Bq Er EINVAL
85ea41f49fSJohn BaldwinAn invalid value was given for
86ea41f49fSJohn Baldwin.Fa advice .
87ea41f49fSJohn Baldwin.El
88ea41f49fSJohn Baldwin.Sh SEE ALSO
89ea41f49fSJohn Baldwin.Xr vnode 9
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