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Filipe Manana
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The memory barrier at extent_io_tree_release() is redundant. Holding spin_lock here is not enough to drop the barrier completely. We only change the waitqueue of an extent state record while holding the tree lock - see wait_on_state(). The update to waitqueue state will not become stale because there will be an spin_unlock/spin_lock sequence between the change and waiting, this implies a full memory barrier. So remove the explicit smp_mb() barrier. Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com> Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com> [ reword reasoning ] Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Linux kernel
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the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.