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| author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-08-07 13:11:22 +0000 |
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| committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-08-07 13:11:22 +0000 |
| commit | b20732900e4636a467c0183a47f7396700f5f743 (patch) | |
| tree | 42f079ff82e701ebcb76829974b4caca3e5b6798 /Documentation/mm/page_cache.rst | |
| parent | Adding upstream version 6.8.12. (diff) | |
| download | linux-b20732900e4636a467c0183a47f7396700f5f743.tar.xz linux-b20732900e4636a467c0183a47f7396700f5f743.zip | |
Adding upstream version 6.9.7.upstream/6.9.7
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/mm/page_cache.rst b/Documentation/mm/page_cache.rst index 75eba7c431..138d61f869 100644 --- a/Documentation/mm/page_cache.rst +++ b/Documentation/mm/page_cache.rst @@ -3,3 +3,13 @@ ========== Page Cache ========== + +The page cache is the primary way that the user and the rest of the kernel +interact with filesystems. It can be bypassed (e.g. with O_DIRECT), +but normal reads, writes and mmaps go through the page cache. + +Folios +====== + +The folio is the unit of memory management within the page cache. +Operations |