invalidate_mapping_pages
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## Name

invalidate_mapping_pages — Invalidate all the unlocked pages of one inode

## Synopsis

`unsigned long invalidate_mapping_pages (` | struct address_space * mapping,
| pgoff_t start,
| pgoff_t end`)`;

## Arguments

`mapping`

  the address_space which holds the pages to invalidate

`start`

  the offset 'from' which to invalidate

`end`

  the offset 'to' which to invalidate (inclusive)

## Description

This function only removes the unlocked pages, if you want to remove all the pages of one inode, you must call truncate_inode_pages.

`invalidate_mapping_pages` will not block on IO activity. It will not invalidate pages which are dirty, locked, under writeback or mapped into pagetables.

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