Name
read_cache_pages —
populate an address space with some pages & start reads against them
Synopsis
int read_cache_pages ( | struct address_space * | mapping, |
| | struct list_head * | pages, |
| | int (* | filler(void *, struct page *), |
| | void * | data); |
Arguments
mapping
the address_space
pages
The address of a list_head which contains the target pages. These
pages have their ->index populated and are otherwise uninitialised.
filler
callback routine for filling a single page.
data
private data for the callback routine.
Description
Hides the details of the LRU cache etc from the filesystems.