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 Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ceph/super.h | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/ceph/super.h b/fs/ceph/super.h index 6edab9a750f8a..e02f4ff0be3f1 100644 --- a/fs/ceph/super.h +++ b/fs/ceph/super.h @@ -541,7 +541,12 @@ static inline void __ceph_dir_set_complete(struct ceph_inode_info *ci, long long release_count, long long ordered_count) { - smp_mb__before_atomic(); + /* + * Makes sure operations that setup readdir cache (update page + * cache and i_size) are strongly ordered w.r.t. the following + * atomic64_set() operations. + */ + smp_mb(); atomic64_set(&ci->i_complete_seq[0], release_count); atomic64_set(&ci->i_complete_seq[1], ordered_count); } -- 2.7.4