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authorWilliam Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>2005-05-01 17:58:38 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org>2005-05-01 17:58:38 +0200
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parent[PATCH] RLIMIT_MEMLOCK checking fix (diff)
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[PATCH] sync_page() smp_mb() comment
The smp_mb() is becaus sync_page() doesn't have PG_locked while it accesses page_mapping(page). The comments in the patch (the entire patch is the addition of this comment) try to explain further how and why smp_mb() is used. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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