Commit e4ecaf90 authored by Qu Wenruo's avatar Qu Wenruo Committed by David Sterba

btrfs: add comments for btrfs_check_can_nocow() and can_nocow_extent()

These two functions have extra conditions that their callers need to
meet, and some not-that-common parameters used for return value.

So adding some comments may save reviewers some time.
Signed-off-by: default avatarQu Wenruo <wqu@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarDavid Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
parent 6d4572a9
......@@ -1533,6 +1533,27 @@ lock_and_cleanup_extent_if_need(struct btrfs_inode *inode, struct page **pages,
return ret;
}
/*
* Check if we can do nocow write into the range [@pos, @pos + @write_bytes)
*
* @pos: File offset
* @write_bytes: The length to write, will be updated to the nocow writeable
* range
* @nowait: Whether this function could sleep
*
* This function will flush ordered extents in the range to ensure proper
* nocow checks for (nowait == false) case.
*
* Return:
* >0 and update @write_bytes if we can do nocow write
* 0 if we can't do nocow write
* -EAGAIN if we can't get the needed lock or there are ordered extents
* for * (nowait == true) case
* <0 if other error happened
*
* NOTE: For wait (nowait == false) calls, callers need to release the drew
* write lock of inode->root->snapshot_lock when return value > 0.
*/
int btrfs_check_can_nocow(struct btrfs_inode *inode, loff_t pos,
size_t *write_bytes, bool nowait)
{
......
......@@ -6945,8 +6945,25 @@ static struct extent_map *btrfs_new_extent_direct(struct inode *inode,
}
/*
* returns 1 when the nocow is safe, < 1 on error, 0 if the
* block must be cow'd
* Check if we can do nocow write into the range [@offset, @offset + @len)
*
* @offset: File offset
* @len: The length to write, will be updated to the nocow writeable
* range
* @orig_start: (optional) Return the original file offset of the file extent
* @orig_len: (optional) Return the original on-disk length of the file extent
* @ram_bytes: (optional) Return the ram_bytes of the file extent
*
* This function will flush ordered extents in the range to ensure proper
* nocow checks for (nowait == false) case.
*
* Return:
* >0 and update @len if we can do nocow write
* 0 if we can't do nocow write
* <0 if error happened
*
* NOTE: This only checks the file extents, caller is responsible to wait for
* any ordered extents.
*/
noinline int can_nocow_extent(struct inode *inode, u64 offset, u64 *len,
u64 *orig_start, u64 *orig_block_len,
......
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