FIND_GET_PAGES_CONTI
Section: Memory Management in Linux (9)
Updated: February 2011
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NAME
find_get_pages_contig - gang contiguous pagecache lookup
SYNOPSIS
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unsigned find_get_pages_contig(struct address_space * mapping, pgoff_t index, unsigned int nr_pages, struct page ** pages);
ARGUMENTS
mapping
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- The address_space to search
index
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The starting page index
nr_pages
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The maximum number of pages
pages
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Where the resulting pages are placed
DESCRIPTION
find_get_pages_contig
works exactly like
find_get_pages, except that the returned number of pages are guaranteed to be contiguous.
find_get_pages_contig
returns the number of pages which were found.
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