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SubjectRe: smp race fix between invalidate_inode_pages* and do_no_page
Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> The main scary thing as far as I can tell, is the blocking lock_page. We
> can't just do TryLockPage...
>

Hopefully that should be OK... it should not tend to get tripped up on read
because filemap_nopage needs to take the lock and wait in that case anyway.
Hopefully other lock_page users will be in the noise?

Another option might be a spinbit in page->flags but that seems like overkill.

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