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authorNikolay Borisov <nborisov@suse.com>2019-05-09 18:11:11 +0300
committerDavid Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>2019-07-01 14:34:59 +0300
commit0b6f5d408bb5df3101eb1944b1f301dea50c7e7e (patch)
tree1e4cc071f098729f54b015990f77704290a58531 /fs/btrfs/volumes.c
parentbd80d94efb83acd67d48f9f3f07483c8306085aa (diff)
downloadlinux-0b6f5d408bb5df3101eb1944b1f301dea50c7e7e.tar.xz
btrfs: Add comments on locking of several device-related fields
Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@suse.com> Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com> Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
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1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/volumes.c b/fs/btrfs/volumes.c
index 5514ae801f4c..776f5c7ca7c5 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/volumes.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/volumes.c
@@ -239,7 +239,9 @@ static int __btrfs_map_block(struct btrfs_fs_info *fs_info,
* chunk_mutex
* -----------
* protects chunks, adding or removing during allocation, trim or when a new
- * device is added/removed
+ * device is added/removed. Additionally it also protects post_commit_list of
+ * individual devices, since they can be added to the transaction's
+ * post_commit_list only with chunk_mutex held.
*
* cleaner_mutex
* -------------