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SubjectRe: Unnecessary barrier in sync_page()?
Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> wrote:
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> however the smp_mb() isn't needed in sync_page, simply because it's
> perfectly ok if we start running sync_page before reading pagelocked.
> All we care about is to run sync_page _before_ io_schedule() and that we
> read PageLocked _after_ prepare_to_wait_exclusive.
>
> So the locking in between PageLocked and sync_page is _absolutely_
> worthless and the smp_mb() can go away.

IIRC, Chris added that barrier (and several similar) for the reads in
page_mapping().
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