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Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 15:26:53 +0100
From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: Jani Monoses <jani@virtualro.ic.ro>
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Subject: Re: mark_inode_dirty question
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On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 02:47:16PM +0200, Jani Monoses wrote:
> mark_inode_dirty and mark_inode_dirty_sync .Could the i_state be changed
> during the call (on another CPU)?

no because you're protected by the inode_lock.

Andrea
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