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.\"      Date: May 2018
.\"    Manual: Memory Management in Linux
.\"    Source: Kernel Hackers Manual 3.16.56
.\"  Language: English
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.TH "GENERIC_WRITEPAGES" "9" "May 2018" "Kernel Hackers Manual 3\&.16\&" "Memory Management in Linux"
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.SH "NAME"
generic_writepages \- walk the list of dirty pages of the given address space and \fBwritepage\fR all of them\&.
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
.HP \w'int\ generic_writepages('u
.BI "int generic_writepages(struct\ address_space\ *\ " "mapping" ", struct\ writeback_control\ *\ " "wbc" ");"
.SH "ARGUMENTS"
.PP
\fImapping\fR
.RS 4
address space structure to write
.RE
.PP
\fIwbc\fR
.RS 4
subtract the number of written pages from *\fIwbc\fR\->nr_to_write
.RE
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.PP
This is a library function, which implements the
\fBwritepages\fR
address_space_operation\&.
.SH "COPYRIGHT"
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