Commit 583e4a23 authored by David Sterba's avatar David Sterba

btrfs: update documentation of set/get helpers

Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
parent f472d3c2
...@@ -39,23 +39,27 @@ static bool check_setget_bounds(const struct extent_buffer *eb, ...@@ -39,23 +39,27 @@ static bool check_setget_bounds(const struct extent_buffer *eb,
} }
/* /*
* this is some deeply nasty code. * Macro templates that define helpers to read/write extent buffer data of a
* given size, that are also used via ctree.h for access to item members by
* specialized helpers.
* *
* The end result is that anyone who #includes ctree.h gets a * Generic helpers:
* declaration for the btrfs_set_foo functions and btrfs_foo functions, * - btrfs_set_8 (for 8/16/32/64)
* which are wrappers of btrfs_set_token_#bits functions and * - btrfs_get_8 (for 8/16/32/64)
* btrfs_get_token_#bits functions, which are defined in this file.
* *
* These setget functions do all the extent_buffer related mapping * Generic helpers with a token (cached address of the most recently accessed
* required to efficiently read and write specific fields in the extent * page):
* buffers. Every pointer to metadata items in btrfs is really just * - btrfs_set_token_8 (for 8/16/32/64)
* an unsigned long offset into the extent buffer which has been * - btrfs_get_token_8 (for 8/16/32/64)
* cast to a specific type. This gives us all the gcc type checking.
* *
* The extent buffer api is used to do the page spanning work required to * The set/get functions handle data spanning two pages transparently, in case
* have a metadata blocksize different from the page size. * metadata block size is larger than page. Every pointer to metadata items is
* an offset into the extent buffer page array, cast to a specific type. This
* gives us all the type checking.
* *
* There are 2 variants defined, one with a token pointer and one without. * The extent buffer pages stored in the array pages do not form a contiguous
* phyusical range, but the API functions assume the linear offset to the range
* from 0 to metadata node size.
*/ */
#define DEFINE_BTRFS_SETGET_BITS(bits) \ #define DEFINE_BTRFS_SETGET_BITS(bits) \
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