Other Functions

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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
vfs_permission - check for access rights to a given path
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
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
freeze_bdev - - lock a filesystem and force it into a consistent state
thaw_bdev - - unlock filesystem
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_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
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
register_filesystem - register a new filesystem
unregister_filesystem - unregister a file system
__mark_inode_dirty - internal function
write_inode_now - write an inode to disk
sync_inode - write an inode and its pages to disk.
generic_osync_inode - flush all dirty data for a given inode to disk
bd_claim_by_disk - wrapper function for bd_claim_by_kobject
bd_release_from_disk - wrapper function for bd_release_from_kobject
open_bdev_excl - open a block device by name and set it up for use
close_bdev_excl - release a blockdevice openen by open_bdev_excl