On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to understand this new address_space stuff, so my question is this:
>
> Imagine I want to invalidate all the pages (data and metadata)
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I meant data only, for metadata it is just plain mark_inode_dirty() thing,
of course. But the rest of the question is still interesting...
> corresponding to a given inode, so next io on this inode will guarantee to
> call the get_block() fs-specific method. I guess I need to go through the
> 'pages' list of inode->i_mapping and inode->i_data under the cover of
> i_shared_lock and 'invalidate' each page. But how? Any clues?
Tigran.
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