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[2/6] xfs: add some comments to xfs_iext_insert/xfs_iext_insert_node

Message ID 20171109132656.1649-3-hch@lst.de (mailing list archive)
State Accepted
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Christoph Hellwig Nov. 9, 2017, 1:26 p.m. UTC
Reported-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
---
 fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_iext_tree.c | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
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diff --git a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_iext_tree.c b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_iext_tree.c
index 85d7f708eafc..c28a24aca9c5 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_iext_tree.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_iext_tree.c
@@ -525,6 +525,10 @@  xfs_iext_insert_node(
 	if (nr_entries == KEYS_PER_NODE)
 		new = xfs_iext_split_node(&node, &pos, &nr_entries);
 
+	/*
+	 * Update the pointers in higher levels if the first entry changes
+	 * in an existing node.
+	 */
 	if (node != new && pos == 0 && nr_entries > 0)
 		xfs_iext_update_node(ifp, node->keys[0], offset, level, node);
 
@@ -643,6 +647,10 @@  xfs_iext_insert(
 	if (nr_entries == RECS_PER_LEAF)
 		new = xfs_iext_split_leaf(cur, &nr_entries);
 
+	/*
+	 * Update the pointers in higher levels if the first entry changes
+	 * in an existing node.
+	 */
 	if (cur->leaf != new && cur->pos == 0 && nr_entries > 0) {
 		xfs_iext_update_node(ifp, xfs_iext_leaf_key(cur->leaf, 0),
 				offset, 1, cur->leaf);