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| author | Jens Axboe <[email protected]> | 2017-10-04 17:22:24 +0000 |
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| committer | Jens Axboe <[email protected]> | 2017-10-04 17:22:24 +0000 |
| commit | fc13457f74dcf054b0d17efb7b94b46fdf17f412 (patch) | |
| tree | b7a6a14246cf9e9c9967c7072d96a0010d117164 /fs/fs-writeback.c | |
| parent | blk-mq: attempt to fix atomic flag memory ordering (diff) | |
| download | kernel-fc13457f74dcf054b0d17efb7b94b46fdf17f412.tar.gz kernel-fc13457f74dcf054b0d17efb7b94b46fdf17f412.zip | |
blk-mq: document the need to have STARTED and COMPLETED share a byte
For memory ordering guarantees on stores, we need to ensure that
these two bits share the same byte of storage in the unsigned
long. Add a comment as to why, and a BUILD_BUG_ON() to ensure that
we don't violate this requirement.
Suggested-by: Boqun Feng <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
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