INVALIDATE_MAPPING_P(9) Memory Management in Linux INVALIDATE_MAPPING_P(9)NAME
invalidate_mapping_pages - Invalidate all the unlocked pages of one inode
SYNOPSIS
unsigned long invalidate_mapping_pages(struct address_space * mapping, pgoff_t start, pgoff_t end);
ARGUMENTS
mapping
the address_space which holds the pages to invalidate
start
the offset 'from' which to invalidate
end
the offset 'to' which to invalidate (inclusive)
DESCRIPTION
This function only removes the unlocked pages, if you want to remove all the pages of one inode, you must call truncate_inode_pages.
invalidate_mapping_pages will not block on IO activity. It will not invalidate pages which are dirty, locked, under writeback or mapped
into pagetables.
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WRITE_CACHE_PAGES(9) Memory Management in Linux WRITE_CACHE_PAGES(9)NAME
write_cache_pages - walk the list of dirty pages of the given address space and write all of them.
SYNOPSIS
int write_cache_pages(struct address_space * mapping, struct writeback_control * wbc, writepage_t writepage, void * data);
ARGUMENTS
mapping
address space structure to write
wbc
subtract the number of written pages from *wbc->nr_to_write
writepage
function called for each page
data
data passed to writepage function
DESCRIPTION
If a page is already under I/O, write_cache_pages skips it, even if it's dirty. This is desirable behaviour for memory-cleaning writeback,
but it is INCORRECT for data-integrity system calls such as fsync. fsync and msync need to guarantee that all the data which was dirty at
the time the call was made get new I/O started against them. If wbc->sync_mode is WB_SYNC_ALL then we were called for data integrity and we
must wait for existing IO to complete.
To avoid livelocks (when other process dirties new pages), we first tag pages which should be written back with TOWRITE tag and only then
start writing them. For data-integrity sync we have to be careful so that we do not miss some pages (e.g., because some other process has
cleared TOWRITE tag we set). The rule we follow is that TOWRITE tag can be cleared only by the process clearing the DIRTY tag (and
submitting the page for IO).
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