There is one thing about cache pages and buffers that puzzles me and
that I have not found in any documenatation and that is not quite
obvious from the source.

What is the relationship between:
a) pages and their buffers associated with the device (tybically
bh->bdev->bd_inode and its mapping) and

b) pages and their buffers associated with files on that device.

I am almost certain they are not the same but at the same time the
relationship seems to be quite important, otherwise we wouldn't have
such dark functions as unmap_underlying_metadata (why on earth is it
called this way? - Does metadata mean, in true kernel naming confusion
spirit, device pages/blocks?).

Can anyone tell me  what the relationship exactly is and what one has
to be aware of when manipulating either of these?

Thank you very much in advance,

Martin Jambor
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