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authorBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2008-10-21 15:52:04 +1100
committerBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2008-10-21 15:52:04 +1100
commita02efb906d12c9d4eb2ab7c59049ba9545e5412d (patch)
treebf1f6467978ec63a22f42299ecac2ee7f7e73336 /fs/ubifs/budget.c
parent84dfcb4b318463cd4883b6a19937824f49aee564 (diff)
parent2515ddc6db8eb49a79f0fe5e67ff09ac7c81eab4 (diff)
Merge commit 'origin' into master
Manual merge of: arch/powerpc/Kconfig arch/powerpc/include/asm/page.h
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/ubifs/budget.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/ubifs/budget.c26
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ubifs/budget.c b/fs/ubifs/budget.c
index 73db464cd08b..1a4973e10664 100644
--- a/fs/ubifs/budget.c
+++ b/fs/ubifs/budget.c
@@ -414,19 +414,21 @@ static int do_budget_space(struct ubifs_info *c)
* @c->lst.empty_lebs + @c->freeable_cnt + @c->idx_gc_cnt -
* @c->lst.taken_empty_lebs
*
- * @empty_lebs are available because they are empty. @freeable_cnt are
- * available because they contain only free and dirty space and the
- * index allocation always occurs after wbufs are synch'ed.
- * @idx_gc_cnt are available because they are index LEBs that have been
- * garbage collected (including trivial GC) and are awaiting the commit
- * before they can be unmapped - note that the in-the-gaps method will
- * grab these if it needs them. @taken_empty_lebs are empty_lebs that
- * have already been allocated for some purpose (also includes those
- * LEBs on the @idx_gc list).
+ * @c->lst.empty_lebs are available because they are empty.
+ * @c->freeable_cnt are available because they contain only free and
+ * dirty space, @c->idx_gc_cnt are available because they are index
+ * LEBs that have been garbage collected and are awaiting the commit
+ * before they can be used. And the in-the-gaps method will grab these
+ * if it needs them. @c->lst.taken_empty_lebs are empty LEBs that have
+ * already been allocated for some purpose.
*
- * Note, @taken_empty_lebs may temporarily be higher by one because of
- * the way we serialize LEB allocations and budgeting. See a comment in
- * 'ubifs_find_free_space()'.
+ * Note, @c->idx_gc_cnt is included to both @c->lst.empty_lebs (because
+ * these LEBs are empty) and to @c->lst.taken_empty_lebs (because they
+ * are taken until after the commit).
+ *
+ * Note, @c->lst.taken_empty_lebs may temporarily be higher by one
+ * because of the way we serialize LEB allocations and budgeting. See a
+ * comment in 'ubifs_find_free_space()'.
*/
lebs = c->lst.empty_lebs + c->freeable_cnt + c->idx_gc_cnt -
c->lst.taken_empty_lebs;