Re: [RFC][PATCH] problem of cont_prepare_write()

[Andrew Morton]

Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@xxxxxxxxx> 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.
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