On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 4:37 PM, Prashant Shah <pshah.mumbai@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 4:33 PM, Rajat Sharma <fs.rajat@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> so has penalty on all files and hence applications. Are you okay with >> it? You need it just for one file. purge cache of just one file from >> your module. Also there could be open file mappings, you might have to >> wait for them to close first. > > Its ok, the writes happens early on before the shell is started so > there are no applications using the file. > > I stumbled upon invalidate_inode_pages() - testing it right now. > At the same time, following proc interface, I stumbled upon invalidate_mapping_pages() to purge cache of desired inode. Try this one if invalidate_inode_pages() does not work. > Regards. _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
