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31 .Nd puffs kernel cache flushing and invalidation routines
37 .Fo puffs_inval_namecache_dir
38 .Fa "struct puffs_usermount *pu" "puffs_cookie_t cookie"
41 .Fn puffs_inval_namecache_all "struct puffs_usermount *pu"
43 .Fo puffs_inval_pagecache_node
44 .Fa "struct puffs_usermount *pu" "puffs_cookie_t cookie"
47 .Fo puffs_inval_pagecache_node_range
48 .Fa "struct puffs_usermount *pu" "puffs_cookie_t cookie" "off_t start"
52 .Fo puffs_flush_pagecache_node
53 .Fa "struct puffs_usermount *pu" "puffs_cookie_t cookie"
56 .Fo puffs_flush_pagecache_node_range
57 .Fa "struct puffs_usermount *pu" "puffs_cookie_t cookie" "off_t start"
61 These routines are used inform the kernel that any information it might
62 have cached is no longer valid.
63 .Fn puffs_inval_namecache_dir
64 invalidates the name cache for a given directory.
67 should describe an existing and valid directory cookie for the file
70 .Fn puffs_inval_namecache_all
71 invalidates the name cache for the entire file system
72 (this routine might go away).
74 The cached pages (file contents) for a regular file described by
77 .Fn puffs_inval_pagecache_node .
78 A specific range can be invalidated using
79 .Fn puffs_inval_pagecache_node_range
80 for a platform specific page level granularity.
85 to a page boundary while
89 to the next page boundary.
90 As a special case, specifying 0 as
92 will invalidate all contents from
94 to the end of the file.
96 It is especially important to note that these routines will not only
97 invalidate data in the "read cache", but also data in the "write back"
98 cache (conceptually speaking; in reality they are the same cache), which
99 has not yet been flushed to the file server.
100 Therefore any unflushed data will be lost.
102 The counterparts of the invalidation routines are the flushing routines
103 .Fn puffs_flush_pagecache_node
105 .Fn puffs_flush_pagecache_node_range ,
106 which force unwritten data from the kernel page cache to be written.
107 For the flush range version, the same range rules as with the
108 invalidation routine apply.
109 The data is flushed asynchronously, i.e. if the routine returns
110 successfully, all the caller knows is that the data has been queued