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