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.