Name

tag_pages_for_writeback — tag pages to be written by write_cache_pages

Synopsis

void tag_pages_for_writeback (struct address_space * mapping,
 pgoff_t start,
 pgoff_t end);
 

Arguments

struct address_space * mapping

address space structure to write

pgoff_t start

starting page index

pgoff_t end

ending page index (inclusive)

Description

This function scans the page range from start to end (inclusive) and tags all pages that have DIRTY tag set with a special TOWRITE tag. The idea is that write_cache_pages (or whoever calls this function) will then use TOWRITE tag to identify pages eligible for writeback. This mechanism is used to avoid livelocking of writeback by a process steadily creating new dirty pages in the file (thus it is important for this function to be quick so that it can tag pages faster than a dirtying process can create them).