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UBIFS: add few commentaries about TNC
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Add a couple of comments - while looking into TNC I could not easily figure out
few facts, so it is a good idea to document them in the code.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
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Artem Bityutskiy authored and Artem Bityutskiy committed Jul 4, 2011
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Expand Up @@ -89,6 +89,10 @@ static int make_idx_node(struct ubifs_info *c, struct ubifs_idx_node *idx,
ubifs_assert(ubifs_zn_dirty(znode));
ubifs_assert(ubifs_zn_cow(znode));

/*
* Note, unlike 'write_index()' we do not add memory barriers here
* because this function is called with @c->tnc_mutex locked.
*/
__clear_bit(DIRTY_ZNODE, &znode->flags);
__clear_bit(COW_ZNODE, &znode->flags);

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clear_bit(COW_ZNODE, &znode->flags);
smp_mb__after_clear_bit();

/*
* We have marked the znode as clean but have not updated the
* @c->clean_zn_cnt counter. If this znode becomes dirty again
* before 'free_obsolete_znodes()' is called, then
* @c->clean_zn_cnt will be decremented before it gets
* incremented (resulting in 2 decrements for the same znode).
* This means that @c->clean_zn_cnt may become negative for a
* while.
*
* Q: why we cannot increment @c->clean_zn_cnt?
* A: because we do not have the @c->tnc_mutex locked, and the
* following code would be racy and buggy:
*
* if (!ubifs_zn_obsolete(znode)) {
* atomic_long_inc(&c->clean_zn_cnt);
* atomic_long_inc(&ubifs_clean_zn_cnt);
* }
*
* Thus, we just delay the @c->clean_zn_cnt update until we
* have the mutex locked.
*/

/* Do not access znode from this point on */

/* Update buffer positions */
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