linux/mm/msync.c

// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
/*
 *	linux/mm/msync.c
 *
 * Copyright (C) 1994-1999  Linus Torvalds
 */

/*
 * The msync() system call.
 */
#include <linux/fs.h>
#include <linux/mm.h>
#include <linux/mman.h>
#include <linux/file.h>
#include <linux/syscalls.h>
#include <linux/sched.h>

/*
 * MS_SYNC syncs the entire file - including mappings.
 *
 * MS_ASYNC does not start I/O (it used to, up to 2.5.67).
 * Nor does it marks the relevant pages dirty (it used to up to 2.6.17).
 * Now it doesn't do anything, since dirty pages are properly tracked.
 *
 * The application may now run fsync() to
 * write out the dirty pages and wait on the writeout and check the result.
 * Or the application may run fadvise(FADV_DONTNEED) against the fd to start
 * async writeout immediately.
 * So by _not_ starting I/O in MS_ASYNC we provide complete flexibility to
 * applications.
 */
SYSCALL_DEFINE3(msync, unsigned long, start, size_t, len, int, flags)
{ … }