Hi,
I've a question regarding how to check if a buffer head is valid.
Suppose that I've read in a block using sb_bread and that buffer head
hasn't been touched in a while so that it's uptodate.
Now suppose that somebody drops the caches from user space. I looked
at the code and found the following,
Beginning from drop_caches_sysctl_handler
--->iterate_supers
---->drop_pagecache_sb
--->invalidate_mapping_pages
---->invalidate_inode_page
--->invalidate_complete_page
--->try_to_release_page
In the try_to_release_page there's call to try_to_free_buffers
Now since i would be having a pointer to the buffer head which is
already uptodate and nothing going on with it this would actually free
the buffer. There's a call to kmem_cache_free, so i would be left with
a pointer which is invalid [Correct?]
Now how do I check if i need to re-read this buffer from disk since
the pointer is actually not valid anymore so checking for bh_uptodate
doesn't make sense. Reading the buffer from disk always isn't
something i'm looking for so any advice on how to check it?
Regards,
Pranay Kr. Srivastava
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