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29.Dd October 20, 2008
30.Dt VINVALBUF 9
31.Os
32.Sh NAME
33.Nm vinvalbuf
34.Nd "flushes and invalidates all buffers associated with a vnode"
35.Sh SYNOPSIS
36.In sys/param.h
37.In sys/vnode.h
38.Ft int
39.Fn vinvalbuf "struct vnode *vp" "int flags" "struct ucred *cred" "int slpflag" "int slptimeo"
40.Sh DESCRIPTION
41The
42.Fn vinvalbuf
43function invalidates all of the buffers associated with the given vnode.
44This includes buffers on the clean list and the dirty list.
45If the
46.Dv V_SAVE
47flag is specified then the buffers on the dirty list are synced prior to being
48released.
49If there is a VM Object associated with the vnode, it is removed.
50.Pp
51Its arguments are:
52.Bl -tag -width ".Fa spltimeo"
53.It Fa vp
54A pointer to the vnode whose buffers will be invalidated.
55.It Fa flags
56The only supported flag is
57.Dv V_SAVE
58and it indicates that dirty buffers should be synced with the disk.
59.It Fa cred
60The user credentials that are used to
61.Xr VOP_FSYNC 9
62buffers if
63.Dv V_SAVE
64is set.
65.It Fa slpflag
66The slp flag that will be used in the priority of any sleeps in the function.
67.It Fa slptimeo
68The timeout for any sleeps in the function.
69.El
70.Sh LOCKS
71The vnode is assumed to be locked prior to the call and remains locked upon return.
72.Pp
73.Va Giant
74must be held by prior to the call and remains locked upon return.
75.Sh RETURN VALUES
76A 0 value is returned on success.
77.Sh PSEUDOCODE
78.Bd -literal -offset indent
79vn_lock(devvp, LK_EXCLUSIVE | LK_RETRY);
80error = vinvalbuf(devvp, V_SAVE, cred, 0, 0);
81VOP_UNLOCK(devvp, 0);
82if (error)
83	return (error);
84.Ed
85.Sh ERRORS
86.Bl -tag -width Er
87.It Bq Er ENOSPC
88The file system is full.
89(With
90.Dv V_SAVE )
91.It Bq Er EDQUOT
92Disc quota exceeded.
93(With
94.Dv V_SAVE )
95.It Bq Er EWOULDBLOCK
96Sleep operation timed out.
97(See
98.Fa slptimeo )
99.It Bq Er ERESTART
100A signal needs to be delivered and the system call should be restarted.
101(With
102.Dv PCATCH
103set in
104.Fa slpflag )
105.It Bq Er EINTR
106The system has been interrupted by a signal.
107(With
108.Dv PCATCH
109set in
110.Fa slpflag )
111.El
112.Sh SEE ALSO
113.Xr tsleep 9 ,
114.Xr VOP_FSYNC 9
115.Sh AUTHORS
116This manual page was written by
117.An Chad David Aq Mt davidc@acns.ab.ca .
118