invalidate_inode_pages2_range (9) Linux Manual Page
invalidate_inode_pages2_range – remove range of pages from an address_space
Synopsis
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.