Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 22 Nov 2004 15:43:25 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH] problem of cont_prepare_write() |
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Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk> wrote: > > 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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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