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| -rw-r--r-- | fs/inode.c | 14 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/fs/inode.c b/fs/inode.c index b2ba83d2c4e1..798052f87035 100644 --- a/fs/inode.c +++ b/fs/inode.c @@ -695,13 +695,15 @@ void unlock_new_inode(struct inode *inode) } #endif /* - * This is special! We do not need the spinlock - * when clearing I_LOCK, because we're guaranteed - * that nobody else tries to do anything about the - * state of the inode when it is locked, as we - * just created it (so there can be no old holders - * that haven't tested I_LOCK). + * This is special! We do not need the spinlock when clearing I_LOCK, + * because we're guaranteed that nobody else tries to do anything about + * the state of the inode when it is locked, as we just created it (so + * there can be no old holders that haven't tested I_LOCK). + * However we must emit the memory barrier so that other CPUs reliably + * see the clearing of I_LOCK after the other inode initialisation has + * completed. */ + smp_mb(); WARN_ON((inode->i_state & (I_LOCK|I_NEW)) != (I_LOCK|I_NEW)); inode->i_state &= ~(I_LOCK|I_NEW); wake_up_inode(inode); |