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jbd2: improve comments about freeing data buffers whose page mapping is NULL 

commit 780f66e592 upstream.

Improve comments in jbd2_journal_commit_transaction() to describe why
we don't need to clear the buffer_mapped bit for freeing file mapping
buffers whose page mapping is NULL.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200217112706.20085-1-yi.zhang@huawei.com
Fixes: c96dceeabf ("jbd2: do not clear the BH_Mapped flag when forgetting a metadata buffer")
Suggested-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: zhangyi (F) <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
5.4-rM2-2.2.x-imx-squashed
zhangyi (F) 2020-02-17 19:27:06 +08:00 committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
parent 8078d3af4a
commit 5815a5d70d
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@ -995,9 +995,10 @@ restart_loop:
* journalled data) we need to unmap buffer and clear
* more bits. We also need to be careful about the check
* because the data page mapping can get cleared under
* out hands, which alse need not to clear more bits
* because the page and buffers will be freed and can
* never be reused once we are done with them.
* our hands. Note that if mapping == NULL, we don't
* need to make buffer unmapped because the page is
* already detached from the mapping and buffers cannot
* get reused.
*/
mapping = READ_ONCE(bh->b_page->mapping);
if (mapping && !sb_is_blkdev_sb(mapping->host->i_sb)) {