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SubjectRe: [RFC][PATCH] problem of cont_prepare_write()
Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk> wrote:
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> I always have a flush_dcache_page(page) between the memset() and
> the SetPageUptodate() so I don't need the barrier, right? Or does the
> flush_dcache_page() not imply ordering?

err, flush_dcache_page() might indeed provide a write barrier on all
architectures which need write barriers. Then again it might not ;) It's
not intended that this be the case.
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