centos man page for mark_buffer_dirty

Query: mark_buffer_dirty

OS: centos

Section: 9

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MARK_BUFFER_DIRTY(9)						   The Linux VFS					      MARK_BUFFER_DIRTY(9)

NAME
mark_buffer_dirty - mark a buffer_head as needing writeout
SYNOPSIS
void mark_buffer_dirty(struct buffer_head * bh);
ARGUMENTS
bh the buffer_head to mark dirty
DESCRIPTION
mark_buffer_dirty will set the dirty bit against the buffer, then set its backing page dirty, then tag the page as dirty in its address_space's radix tree and then attach the address_space's inode to its superblock's dirty inode list. mark_buffer_dirty is atomic. It takes bh->b_page->mapping->private_lock, mapping->tree_lock and mapping->host->i_lock.
COPYRIGHT
Kernel Hackers Manual 3.10 June 2014 MARK_BUFFER_DIRTY(9)
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