change of behavior for madvise in 3.9-rc1

From: CAI Qian
Date: Wed Mar 06 2013 - 23:05:17 EST


Bisecting indicated that this commit,
1998cc048901109a29924380b8e91bc049b32951
mm: make madvise(MADV_WILLNEED) support swap file prefetch

Caused an LTP test failure,
http://goo.gl/1FVPy

madvise02 1 TPASS : failed as expected: TEST_ERRNO=EINVAL(22): Invalid argument
madvise02 2 TPASS : failed as expected: TEST_ERRNO=EINVAL(22): Invalid argument
madvise02 3 TPASS : failed as expected: TEST_ERRNO=EINVAL(22): Invalid argument
madvise02 4 TPASS : failed as expected: TEST_ERRNO=ENOMEM(12): Cannot allocate memory
madvise02 5 TFAIL : madvise succeeded unexpectedly

While it passed without the above commit
madvise02 1 TPASS : failed as expected: TEST_ERRNO=EINVAL(22): Invalid argument
madvise02 2 TPASS : failed as expected: TEST_ERRNO=EINVAL(22): Invalid argument
madvise02 3 TPASS : failed as expected: TEST_ERRNO=EINVAL(22): Invalid argument
madvise02 4 TPASS : failed as expected: TEST_ERRNO=ENOMEM(12): Cannot allocate memory
madvise02 5 TPASS : failed as expected: TEST_ERRNO=EBADF(9): Bad file descriptor

CAI Qian
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