INVALIDATE_INODE_PAG
Section: Memory Management in Linux (9)
Updated: February 2011
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NAME
invalidate_inode_pages2_range - remove range of pages from an address_space
 
SYNOPSIS
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int invalidate_inode_pages2_range(struct address_space * mapping, pgoff_t start, pgoff_t end);
ARGUMENTS
mapping
- 
- the address_space
start
- 
the page offset 'from' which to invalidate
end
- 
the page offset 'to' which to invalidate (inclusive)
DESCRIPTION
Any pages which are found to be mapped into pagetables are unmapped prior to invalidation.
Returns -EBUSY if any pages could not be invalidated.
 
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