.\" 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 "MARK_BUFFER_DIRTY" "" "06 October 2005" "" "" .SH NAME mark_buffer_dirty \- mark a buffer_head as needing writeout .SH SYNOPSIS "SYNOPSIS" .sp \fB .sp void mark_buffer_dirty (struct buffer_head * \fIbh\fB); \fR .SH "ARGUMENTS" .TP \fB\fIbh\fB\fR -- undescribed -- .SH "DESCRIPTION" .PP .PP \fBmark_buffer_dirty\fR will set the dirty bit against the buffer, then set its backing page dirty, then attach the page to its address_space's dirty_pages list and then attach the address_space's inode to its superblock's dirty inode list. .PP \fBmark_buffer_dirty\fR is atomic. It takes bh->b_page->mapping->private_lock, mapping->page_lock and the global inode_lock.