java pagecache_Page Cache(页缓存)

address_space

struct address_space {

struct inode *host; /* owning inode */

struct radix_tree_root page_tree; /* radix tree of all pages */

spinlock_t tree_lock; /* page_tree lock */

unsigned int i_mmap_writable; /* VM_SHARED ma count */

struct prio_tree_root i_mmap; /* list of all mappings */

struct list_head i_mmap_nonlinear; /* VM_NONLINEAR ma list */

spinlock_t i_mmap_lock; /* i_mmap lock */

atomic_t truncate_count; /* truncate re count */

unsigned long nrpages; /* total number of pages */

pgoff_t writeback_index; /* writeback start offset */

struct address_space_operations *a_ops; /* operations table */

unsigned long flags; /* gfp_mask and error flags */

struct backing_dev_info *backing_dev_info; /* read-ahead information */

spinlock_t private_lock; /* private lock */

struct list_head private_list; /* private list */

struct address_space *assoc_mapping; /* associated buffers */

};

其中 host域指向对应的inode对象，host有可能为NULL，这意味着这个address_space不是和一个文件关联，而是和swap area相关，swap是Linux中将匿名内存(比如进程的堆、栈等，没有一个文件作为back store)置换到swap area(比如swap分区)从而释放物理内存的一种机制。page_tree保存了该page cache中所有的page，使用基数树(radix Tree)来存储。i_mmap是保存了所有映射到当前page cache(物理的)的虚拟内存区域(VMA)。nrpages是当前address_space中page的数量。