This barrier only applies to the read-modify-write operations; in particular, it does not apply to the atomic64_set() primitive. Replace the barrier with an smp_mb(). Fixes: fdd4e15838e59 ("ceph: rework dcache readdir") Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Reported-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrea Parri <andrea.parri@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "Yan, Zheng" <zyan@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Sage Weil <sage@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: ceph-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --- fs/ceph/super.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/ceph/super.h b/fs/ceph/super.h index 16c03188578ea..b5c782e6d62f1 100644 --- a/fs/ceph/super.h +++ b/fs/ceph/super.h @@ -541,7 +541,7 @@ static inline void __ceph_dir_set_complete(struct ceph_inode_info *ci, long long release_count, long long ordered_count) { - smp_mb__before_atomic(); + smp_mb(); atomic64_set(&ci->i_complete_seq[0], release_count); atomic64_set(&ci->i_complete_seq[1], ordered_count); } -- 2.7.4