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Commit dd1d5afc authored by William Lee Irwin III's avatar William Lee Irwin III Committed by Linus Torvalds
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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: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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