generic_writepages (9) Linux Manual Page
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.