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authorEric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>2016-12-03 23:55:01 +0300
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>2016-12-03 23:55:01 +0300
commitb649668c0bb3f54523cd932490a3f637859fdeb0 (patch)
tree6a6520043604f036ef9b56c3965ba8e350e1eb69 /fs/mbcache.c
parent132d4e2d55dfd9edae26cb35f088add7c19990e6 (diff)
downloadlinux-b649668c0bb3f54523cd932490a3f637859fdeb0.tar.xz
mbcache: document that "find" functions only return reusable entries
mb_cache_entry_find_first() and mb_cache_entry_find_next() only return cache entries with the 'e_reusable' bit set. This should be documented. Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/mbcache.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/mbcache.c16
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/fs/mbcache.c b/fs/mbcache.c
index bf659061a9a8..b19be429d655 100644
--- a/fs/mbcache.c
+++ b/fs/mbcache.c
@@ -155,12 +155,12 @@ out:
}
/*
- * mb_cache_entry_find_first - find the first entry in cache with given key
+ * mb_cache_entry_find_first - find the first reusable entry with the given key
* @cache: cache where we should search
* @key: key to look for
*
- * Search in @cache for entry with key @key. Grabs reference to the first
- * entry found and returns the entry.
+ * Search in @cache for a reusable entry with key @key. Grabs reference to the
+ * first reusable entry found and returns the entry.
*/
struct mb_cache_entry *mb_cache_entry_find_first(struct mb_cache *cache,
u32 key)
@@ -170,14 +170,14 @@ struct mb_cache_entry *mb_cache_entry_find_first(struct mb_cache *cache,
EXPORT_SYMBOL(mb_cache_entry_find_first);
/*
- * mb_cache_entry_find_next - find next entry in cache with the same
+ * mb_cache_entry_find_next - find next reusable entry with the same key
* @cache: cache where we should search
* @entry: entry to start search from
*
- * Finds next entry in the hash chain which has the same key as @entry.
- * If @entry is unhashed (which can happen when deletion of entry races
- * with the search), finds the first entry in the hash chain. The function
- * drops reference to @entry and returns with a reference to the found entry.
+ * Finds next reusable entry in the hash chain which has the same key as @entry.
+ * If @entry is unhashed (which can happen when deletion of entry races with the
+ * search), finds the first reusable entry in the hash chain. The function drops
+ * reference to @entry and returns with a reference to the found entry.
*/
struct mb_cache_entry *mb_cache_entry_find_next(struct mb_cache *cache,
struct mb_cache_entry *entry)