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    fs/buffer.c: make block-size be per-page and protected by the page lock · 45bce8f3
    Linus Torvalds authored
    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: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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