Other Functions
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Other Functions

mpage_readpages — populate an address space with some pages & start reads against them
mpage_writepages — walk the list of dirty pages of the given address space & writepage all of them
generic_permission — check for access rights on a Posix-like filesystem
inode_permission — check for access rights to a given inode
file_permission — check for additional access rights to a given file
path_get — get a reference to a path
path_put — put a reference to a path
release_open_intent — free up open intent resources
vfs_path_lookup — lookup a file path relative to a dentry-vfsmount pair
lookup_one_len — filesystem helper to lookup single pathname component
filp_open — open file and return file pointer
lookup_create — lookup a dentry, creating it if it doesn't exist
sync_mapping_buffers — write out & wait upon a mapping's “associated” buffers
mark_buffer_dirty — mark a buffer_head as needing writeout
__bread — reads a specified block and returns the bh
block_invalidatepage — invalidate part of all of a buffer-backed page
ll_rw_block — level access to block devices (DEPRECATED)
bh_uptodate_or_lock — Test whether the buffer is uptodate
bh_submit_read — Submit a locked buffer for reading
bio_alloc_bioset — allocate a bio for I/O
bio_alloc — allocate a new bio, memory pool backed
bio_kmalloc — allocate a bio for I/O using kmalloc
bio_put — release a reference to a bio
__bio_clone — clone a bio
bio_clone — clone a bio
bio_get_nr_vecs — return approx number of vecs
bio_add_pc_page — attempt to add page to bio
bio_add_page — attempt to add page to bio
bio_uncopy_user — finish previously mapped bio
bio_copy_user — copy user data to bio
bio_map_user — map user address into bio
bio_unmap_user — unmap a bio
bio_map_kern — map kernel address into bio
bio_copy_kern — copy kernel address into bio
bio_endio — end I/O on a bio
bio_sector_offset — Find hardware sector offset in bio
bioset_create — Create a bio_set
seq_open — initialize sequential file
seq_read — ->read method for sequential files.
seq_lseek — ->llseek method for sequential files.
seq_release — free the structures associated with sequential file.
seq_escape — print string into buffer, escaping some characters
mangle_path — mangle and copy path to buffer beginning
seq_path — seq_file interface to print a pathname
seq_write — write arbitrary data to buffer
register_filesystem — register a new filesystem
unregister_filesystem — unregister a file system
__mark_inode_dirty — internal function
writeback_inodes_sb — writeback dirty inodes from given super_block
writeback_inodes_sb_if_idle — start writeback if none underway
sync_inodes_sb — sync sb inode pages
write_inode_now — write an inode to disk
sync_inode — write an inode and its pages to disk.
freeze_bdev — - lock a filesystem and force it into a consistent state
thaw_bdev — - unlock filesystem
bd_claim_by_disk — wrapper function for bd_claim_by_kobject
bd_release_from_disk — wrapper function for bd_release_from_kobject
check_disk_size_change — checks for disk size change and adjusts bdev size.
revalidate_disk — wrapper for lower-level driver's revalidate_disk call-back
lookup_bdev — lookup a struct block_device by name
open_bdev_exclusive — open a block device by name and set it up for use
close_bdev_exclusive — close a blockdevice opened by open_bdev_exclusive
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