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
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int read_cache_pages(struct address_space * mapping, struct list_head * pages, int (*filler) (void *, struct page *), void * data);
ARGUMENTS
mapping
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- the address_space
pages
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The address of a list_head which contains the target pages. These pages have their ->index populated and are otherwise uninitialised.
filler
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callback routine for filling a single page.
data
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private data for the callback routine.
DESCRIPTION
Hides the details of the LRU cache etc from the filesystems.
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