FIND_OR_CREATE_PAGE

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NAME

find_or_create_page - locate or add a pagecache page  

SYNOPSIS

"SYNOPSIS"

struct page * find_or_create_page (struct address_space * mapping, unsigned long index, unsigned int gfp_mask);  

ARGUMENTS

mapping
-- undescribed --
index
-- undescribed --
gfp_mask
-- undescribed --
 

DESCRIPTION

mapping - the page's address_space index - the page's index into the mapping gfp_mask - page allocation mode

Locates a page in the pagecache. If the page is not present, a new page is allocated using gfp_mask and is added to the pagecache and to the VM's LRU list. The returned page is locked and has its reference count incremented.

find_or_create_page may sleep, even if gfp_flags specifies an atomic allocation!

find_or_create_page returns the desired page's address, or zero on memory exhaustion.


 

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