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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/xfs-delayed-logging-design.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/xfs-delayed-logging-design.rst index 02b32030bab3..6402ab8e370c 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/xfs-delayed-logging-design.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/xfs-delayed-logging-design.rst @@ -551,14 +551,14 @@ Essentially, this shows that an item that is in the AIL can still be modified and relogged, so any tracking must be separate to the AIL infrastructure. As such, we cannot reuse the AIL list pointers for tracking committed items, nor can we store state in any field that is protected by the AIL lock. Hence the -committed item tracking needs it's own locks, lists and state fields in the log +committed item tracking needs its own locks, lists and state fields in the log item. Similar to the AIL, tracking of committed items is done through a new list called the Committed Item List (CIL). The list tracks log items that have been committed and have formatted memory buffers attached to them. It tracks objects in transaction commit order, so when an object is relogged it is removed from -it's place in the list and re-inserted at the tail. This is entirely arbitrary +its place in the list and re-inserted at the tail. This is entirely arbitrary and done to make it easy for debugging - the last items in the list are the ones that are most recently modified. Ordering of the CIL is not necessary for transactional integrity (as discussed in the next section) so the ordering is @@ -884,7 +884,7 @@ pin the object the first time it is inserted into the CIL - if it is already in the CIL during a transaction commit, then we do not pin it again. Because there can be multiple outstanding checkpoint contexts, we can still see elevated pin counts, but as each checkpoint completes the pin count will retain the correct -value according to it's context. +value according to its context. Just to make matters slightly more complex, this checkpoint level context for the pin count means that the pinning of an item must take place under the |