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authorChris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>2008-09-29 23:18:18 +0400
committerChris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>2008-09-29 23:18:18 +0400
commitd352ac68148b69937d39ca5d48bcc4478e118dbf (patch)
tree7951dd7311999d9e77766acdc7f8e93de97874d8 /fs/btrfs/struct-funcs.c
parent9a5e1ea1e1e539e244a54afffc330fc368376ab9 (diff)
downloadlinux-d352ac68148b69937d39ca5d48bcc4478e118dbf.tar.xz
Btrfs: add and improve comments
This improves the comments at the top of many functions. It didn't dive into the guts of functions because I was trying to avoid merging problems with the new allocator and back reference work. extent-tree.c and volumes.c were both skipped, and there is definitely more work todo in cleaning and commenting the code. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
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diff --git a/fs/btrfs/struct-funcs.c b/fs/btrfs/struct-funcs.c
index ad03a32d1116..cdedbe144d45 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/struct-funcs.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/struct-funcs.c
@@ -17,6 +17,27 @@
*/
#include <linux/highmem.h>
+
+/* this is some deeply nasty code. ctree.h has a different
+ * definition for this BTRFS_SETGET_FUNCS macro, behind a #ifndef
+ *
+ * The end result is that anyone who #includes ctree.h gets a
+ * declaration for the btrfs_set_foo functions and btrfs_foo functions
+ *
+ * This file declares the macros and then #includes ctree.h, which results
+ * in cpp creating the function here based on the template below.
+ *
+ * These setget functions do all the extent_buffer related mapping
+ * required to efficiently read and write specific fields in the extent
+ * buffers. Every pointer to metadata items in btrfs is really just
+ * an unsigned long offset into the extent buffer which has been
+ * cast to a specific type. This gives us all the gcc type checking.
+ *
+ * The extent buffer api is used to do all the kmapping and page
+ * spanning work required to get extent buffers in highmem and have
+ * a metadata blocksize different from the page size.
+ */
+
#define BTRFS_SETGET_FUNCS(name, type, member, bits) \
u##bits btrfs_##name(struct extent_buffer *eb, \
type *s) \