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Subject: Re: Unnecessary barrier in sync_page()?
From: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
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On Wed, 2004-07-07 at 17:30, Andrew Morton wrote:

> But I cannot think of any callers of sync_page() who don't have a ref on
> the inode, so...

I looked pretty hard for callers that didn't have a ref on the inode
while debugging the backing dev oopsen...I couldn't find any.

-chris