.\" This manpage has been automatically generated by docbook2man .\" from a DocBook document. This tool can be found at: .\" .\" Please send any bug reports, improvements, comments, patches, .\" etc. to Steve Cheng . .TH "__FILEMAP_FDATAWRITE" "" "06 October 2005" "" "" .SH NAME __filemap_fdatawrite \- start writeback against all of a mapping's dirty pages .SH SYNOPSIS "SYNOPSIS" .sp \fB .sp int __filemap_fdatawrite (struct address_space * \fImapping\fB, int \fIsync_mode\fB); \fR .SH "ARGUMENTS" .TP \fB\fImapping\fB\fR address space structure to write .TP \fB\fIsync_mode\fB\fR -- undescribed -- .SH "DESCRIPTION" .PP This is a ``data integrity'' operation, as opposed to a regular memory cleansing writeback. The difference between these two operations is that if a dirty page/buffer is encountered, it must be waited upon, and not just skipped over.