[11/17] bcache: add code comments for state->pool in __btree_sort()

Commit Message

Coly Li Jan. 23, 2020, 5:01 p.m. UTC

From: Coly Li <[e-mail]>

To explain the pages allocated from mempool state->pool can be
swapped in __btree_sort(), because state->pool is a page pool,
which allocates pages by alloc_pages() indeed.

Signed-off-by: Coly Li <[e-mail]>
---
 drivers/md/bcache/bset.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

Patch

diff --git a/drivers/md/bcache/bset.c b/drivers/md/bcache/bset.c
index cffcdc9feefb..4385303836d8 100644
--- a/drivers/md/bcache/bset.c
+++ b/drivers/md/bcache/bset.c
@@ -1257,6 +1257,11 @@  static void __btree_sort(struct btree_keys *b, struct btree_iter *iter,
 		 * Our temporary buffer is the same size as the btree node's
 		 * buffer, we can just swap buffers instead of doing a big
 		 * memcpy()
+		 *
+		 * Don't worry event 'out' is allocated from mempool, it can
+		 * still be swapped here. Because state->pool is a page mempool
+		 * creaated by by mempool_init_page_pool(), which allocates
+		 * pages by alloc_pages() indeed.
 		 */
 
 		out->magic	= b->set->data->magic;