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authorNikolay Borisov <nborisov@suse.com>2020-08-12 17:04:36 +0300
committerDavid Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>2020-10-07 12:06:58 +0200
commit427c8fddb1296dd013d8af5a4957d9d88fb8ab4e (patch)
treed2317468e6d0c47eac77755f30754ccf8d363e0f /fs/btrfs/volumes.c
parent944d3f9fac61e24e13a056b25974df3831994f29 (diff)
downloadlinux-427c8fddb1296dd013d8af5a4957d9d88fb8ab4e.tar.bz2
btrfs: document some invariants of seed code
Without good understanding of how seed devices works it's hard to grok some of what the code in open_seed_devices or btrfs_prepare_sprout does. Add comments hopefully reducing some of the cognitive load. Reviewed-by: Anand Jain <anand.jain@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@suse.com> Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/btrfs/volumes.c')
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1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/volumes.c b/fs/btrfs/volumes.c
index 2d7c845b8e67..7a39f3aebc53 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/volumes.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/volumes.c
@@ -2357,10 +2357,20 @@ static int btrfs_prepare_sprout(struct btrfs_fs_info *fs_info)
if (!fs_devices->seeding)
return -EINVAL;
+ /*
+ * Private copy of the seed devices, anchored at
+ * fs_info->fs_devices->seed_list
+ */
seed_devices = alloc_fs_devices(NULL, NULL);
if (IS_ERR(seed_devices))
return PTR_ERR(seed_devices);
+ /*
+ * It's necessary to retain a copy of the original seed fs_devices in
+ * fs_uuids so that filesystems which have been seeded can successfully
+ * reference the seed device from open_seed_devices. This also supports
+ * multiple fs seed.
+ */
old_devices = clone_fs_devices(fs_devices);
if (IS_ERR(old_devices)) {
kfree(seed_devices);
@@ -6720,6 +6730,7 @@ static struct btrfs_fs_devices *open_seed_devices(struct btrfs_fs_info *fs_info,
lockdep_assert_held(&uuid_mutex);
ASSERT(fsid);
+ /* This will match only for multi-device seed fs */
list_for_each_entry(fs_devices, &fs_info->fs_devices->seed_list, seed_list)
if (!memcmp(fs_devices->fsid, fsid, BTRFS_FSID_SIZE))
return fs_devices;
@@ -6739,6 +6750,10 @@ static struct btrfs_fs_devices *open_seed_devices(struct btrfs_fs_info *fs_info,
return fs_devices;
}
+ /*
+ * Upon first call for a seed fs fsid, just create a private copy of the
+ * respective fs_devices and anchor it at fs_info->fs_devices->seed_list
+ */
fs_devices = clone_fs_devices(fs_devices);
if (IS_ERR(fs_devices))
return fs_devices;