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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-11-29 10:21:43 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-11-29 10:47:20 -0800
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fs/buffer.c: make block-size be per-page and protected by the page lock
This makes the buffer size handling be a per-page thing, which allows us to not have to worry about locking too much when changing the buffer size. If a page doesn't have buffers, we still need to read the block size from the inode, but we can do that with ACCESS_ONCE(), so that even if the size is changing, we get a consistent value. This doesn't convert all functions - many of the buffer functions are used purely by filesystems, which in turn results in the buffer size being fixed at mount-time. So they don't have the same consistency issues that the raw device access can have. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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