mm: fadvise: document the fadvise(FADV_DONTNEED) behaviour for partial pages

A random seek IO benchmark appeared to regress because of a change to
readahead but the real problem was the benchmark.  To ensure the IO
request accesssed disk, it used fadvise(FADV_DONTNEED) on a block boundary
(512K) but the hint is ignored by the kernel.  This is correct but not
necessarily obvious behaviour.  As much as I dislike comment patches, the
explanation for this behaviour predates current git history.  Clarify why
it behaves like this in case someone "fixes" fadvise or readahead for the
wrong reasons.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

mm/fadvise.c

@@ -117,7 +117,11 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(fadvise64_64, int, fd, loff_t, offset, loff_t, len, int, advice)
 			__filemap_fdatawrite_range(mapping, offset, endbyte,
 						   WB_SYNC_NONE);
 
-		/* First and last FULL page! */
+		/*
+		 * First and last FULL page! Partial pages are deliberately
+		 * preserved on the expectation that it is better to preserve
+		 * needed memory than to discard unneeded memory.
+		 */
 		start_index = (offset+(PAGE_CACHE_SIZE-1)) >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
 		end_index = (endbyte >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT);