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    <td bgcolor="#cccccc"><span class="style1" style="margin-left:5px">sys_fadvise64_64 &nbsp;<span class="style2">[mm/fadvice.c] </span></span></td>
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    <td><p style="margin-left:22px;margin-top:0px"><br />
      Gives the kernel an 'advice' on how it should use the file handle,   so that the kernel can choose appropriate read-ahead and caching techniques for   access to the corresponding file. </p>
      <p style="margin-left:10px"><strong>Arguments</strong></p>
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          <td width="6%" valign="top"><em>eax</em></td>
          <td width="94%">272</td>
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          <td valign="top"><em>ebx</em></td>
          <td>File descriptor. </td>
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          <td valign="top"><em>ecx</em></td>
          <td>Starting offset. </td>
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          <td valign="top"><em>edx</em></td>
          <td>Length.</td>
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          <td valign="top"><em>esi</em></td>
          <td>Advice. It may be one of the following predefined values:
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                <td><code>POSIX_FADV_NORMAL	&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;- No further special treatment.<br />
                  POSIX_FADV_RANDOM	&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;- Expect random page references.  <br />
                  POSIX_FADV_SEQUENTIAL	- Expect sequential page references.<br />
                  POSIX_FADV_WILLNEED	&nbsp;&nbsp;- Expect access in the near future. <br />
POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED	&nbsp; - Don't access in the near future.<br />
                POSIX_FADV_NOREUSE	&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;- Data will be accessed once.</code>
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      <p style="margin-left:10px" ><strong>Return values</strong></p>
      <p style="margin-left:22px;margin-right:10px" >If the system call succeeds the return value is 0.<br />
      If the system call fails the return value is one of the following <em>errno</em> values: </p>
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                <td width="10%"><code>-EBADF</code></td>
                <td width="90%"><code> An invalid file descriptor was specified.</code></td>
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                <td valign="top"><code>-EINVAL </code></td>
                <td><code>An invalid <em>f_mapping</em> of file, <em>edx</em> value is samller than 0, or <em>esi</em> value unknown. </code></td>
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      <p style="margin-left:10px"><strong>Remarks</strong></p>
      <p style="margin-left:22px">n/a</p>
      <p style="margin-left:10px"><strong>Compatibility</strong></p>
    <p style="margin-left:22px">Available since 2.6.0</p></td>
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