Other Functions

mpage_readpages — populate an address space with some pages & start reads against them
mpage_writepages — walk the list of dirty pages of the given address space & writepage all of them
generic_permission — check for access rights on a Posix-like filesystem
vfs_permission — check for access rights to a given path
file_permission — check for additional access rights to a given file
path_get — get a reference to a path
path_put — put a reference to a path
vfs_path_lookup — lookup a file path relative to a dentry-vfsmount pair
lookup_one_len — filesystem helper to lookup single pathname component
filp_open — open file and return file pointer
lookup_create — lookup a dentry, creating it if it doesn't exist
freeze_bdev — - lock a filesystem and force it into a consistent state
thaw_bdev — - unlock filesystem
sync_mapping_buffers — write out & wait upon a mapping's “associated” buffers
mark_buffer_dirty — mark a buffer_head as needing writeout
__bread — reads a specified block and returns the bh
block_invalidatepage — invalidate part of all of a buffer-backed page
ll_rw_block — level access to block devices (DEPRECATED)
bh_uptodate_or_lock — Test whether the buffer is uptodate
bh_submit_read — Submit a locked buffer for reading
bio_alloc_bioset — allocate a bio for I/O
bio_put — release a reference to a bio
__bio_clone — clone a bio
bio_clone — clone a bio
bio_get_nr_vecs — return approx number of vecs
bio_add_pc_page — attempt to add page to bio
bio_add_page — attempt to add page to bio
bio_uncopy_user — finish previously mapped bio
bio_copy_user — copy user data to bio
bio_map_user — map user address into bio
bio_unmap_user — unmap a bio
bio_map_kern — map kernel address into bio
bio_copy_kern — copy kernel address into bio
bio_endio — end I/O on a bio
seq_open — initialize sequential file
seq_read — ->read method for sequential files.
seq_lseek — ->llseek method for sequential files.
seq_release — free the structures associated with sequential file.
seq_escape — print string into buffer, escaping some characters
register_filesystem — register a new filesystem
unregister_filesystem — unregister a file system
__mark_inode_dirty — internal function
write_inode_now — write an inode to disk
sync_inode — write an inode and its pages to disk.
generic_osync_inode — flush all dirty data for a given inode to disk
bd_claim_by_disk — wrapper function for bd_claim_by_kobject
bd_release_from_disk — wrapper function for bd_release_from_kobject
open_bdev_excl — open a block device by name and set it up for use
close_bdev_excl — release a blockdevice openen by open_bdev_excl