READ_CACHE_PAGES

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

read_cache_pages - populate an address space with some pages & start reads against them  

SYNOPSIS

int read_cache_pages(struct address_space * mapping, struct list_head * pages, int (*filler) (void *, struct page *), void * data);
 

ARGUMENTS

mapping

the address_space

pages

The address of a list_head which contains the target pages. These pages have their ->index populated and are otherwise uninitialised.

filler

callback routine for filling a single page.

data

private data for the callback routine.
 

DESCRIPTION

Hides the details of the LRU cache etc from the filesystems.  

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