GENERIC_WRITEPAGES

Section: Memory Management in Linux (9)
Updated: February 2011
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NAME

generic_writepages - walk the list of dirty pages of the given address space and writepage all of them.  

SYNOPSIS

int generic_writepages(struct address_space * mapping, struct writeback_control * wbc);
 

ARGUMENTS

mapping

address space structure to write

wbc

subtract the number of written pages from *wbc->nr_to_write
 

DESCRIPTION

This is a library function, which implements the writepages address_space_operation.  

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