Andrew Morton wrote:
On Tue,  6 Feb 2007 09:02:11 +0100 (CET) Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


+static inline void __SetPageUptodate(struct page *page)
+{
+#ifdef CONFIG_S390
        if (!test_and_set_bit(PG_uptodate, &page->flags))
                page_test_and_clear_dirty(page);
-}
#else
-#define SetPageUptodate(page)  set_bit(PG_uptodate, &(page)->flags)
+       /*
+        * Memory barrier must be issued before setting the PG_uptodate bit,
+        * so all previous writes that served to bring the page uptodate are
+        * visible before PageUptodate becomes true.
+        *
+        * S390 is guaranteed to have a barrier in the test_and_set operation
+        * (see Documentation/atomic_ops.txt).
+        *
+        * XXX: does this memory barrier need to be anything special to
+        * handle things like DMA writes into the page?
+        */
+       smp_wmb();
+       set_bit(PG_uptodate, &(page)->flags);
#endif
+}
+
+static inline void SetPageUptodate(struct page *page)
+{
+       WARN_ON(!PageLocked(page));
+       __SetPageUptodate(page);
+}
+
+static inline void SetNewPageUptodate(struct page *page)
+{
+       __SetPageUptodate(page);
+}


I was panicing for a minute when I saw that __SetPageUptodate() in there.

Conventionally the __SetPageFoo namespace is for nonatomic updates to
page->flags.  Can we call this something different?

Duh, of course, sorry.

What a fugly patchset :(

Fugly problem. One could fix it by always locking the page, but I was
worried about Hugh flaming me if I tried that ;)

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