filemap_write_and_wait_range (9) Linux Manual Page
filemap_write_and_wait_range – write out & wait on a file range
Synopsis
int filemap_write_and_wait_range(struct address_space *mapping, loff_t lstart, loff_t lend);Arguments
mapping
-
- the address_space for the pages
lstart
- offset in bytes where the range starts
lend
- offset in bytes where the range ends (inclusive)
Description
Write out and wait upon file offsets lstart->lend, inclusive.
Note that `lend’ is inclusive (describes the last byte to be written) so that this function can be used to write to the very end-of-file (end = -1).