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From: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
To: "Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky" <inaky.perez-gonzalez@intel.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: RE: Which is the proper way to bring in the backing store behind an inode as an struct page?
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 11:07:29 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200407021805.i62I5TY14608@unix-os.sc.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F989B1573A3A644BAB3920FBECA4D25A6EBED8@orsmsx407>

Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky wrote on Thursday, July 01, 2004 11:35 PM
> Dummy question that has been evading me for the last hours. Can you
> help? Please bear with me here, I am a little lost in how to deal
> with inodes and the cache.
>
> ....
>
> Thus, what I need is a way that given the pair (inode,pgoff)
> returns to me the 'struct page *' if the thing is cached in memory or
> pulls it up from swap/file into memory and gets me a 'struct page *'.
>
> Is there a way to do this?

find_get_page() might be the one you are looking for.


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  reply	other threads:[~2004-07-02 18:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-07-02  6:34 Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky
2004-07-02 18:07 ` Chen, Kenneth W [this message]
2004-07-02 18:46 ` Dave Hansen
2004-07-03  0:37 Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky
2004-07-03  5:52 ` Ram Pai

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