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author | Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> | 2007-12-17 06:21:07 -0500 |
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committer | Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> | 2007-12-26 12:15:15 -0500 |
commit | c63a491d3737aec3c47c5e785d87021752ad9fa6 (patch) | |
tree | 0fc3a0dee3493d52997426a745c52ff8d2287225 /drivers | |
parent | cae0a77125467c42f0918e78457913ee4a2f925b (diff) |
UBI: add some more comments
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r-- | drivers/mtd/ubi/eba.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/mtd/ubi/eba.c b/drivers/mtd/ubi/eba.c index b2b0f29bdc53..2ff34923e51d 100644 --- a/drivers/mtd/ubi/eba.c +++ b/drivers/mtd/ubi/eba.c | |||
@@ -797,7 +797,7 @@ write_error: | |||
797 | /* | 797 | /* |
798 | * ubi_eba_atomic_leb_change - change logical eraseblock atomically. | 798 | * ubi_eba_atomic_leb_change - change logical eraseblock atomically. |
799 | * @ubi: UBI device description object | 799 | * @ubi: UBI device description object |
800 | * @vol: volume escription object | 800 | * @vol: volume description object |
801 | * @lnum: logical eraseblock number | 801 | * @lnum: logical eraseblock number |
802 | * @buf: data to write | 802 | * @buf: data to write |
803 | * @len: how many bytes to write | 803 | * @len: how many bytes to write |
@@ -955,6 +955,12 @@ int ubi_eba_copy_leb(struct ubi_device *ubi, int from, int to, | |||
955 | /* | 955 | /* |
956 | * We may race with volume deletion/re-size, so we have to hold | 956 | * We may race with volume deletion/re-size, so we have to hold |
957 | * @ubi->volumes_lock. | 957 | * @ubi->volumes_lock. |
958 | * | ||
959 | * Note, it is not a problem if we race with volume deletion or re-size | ||
960 | * here. If the volume is deleted or re-sized while we are moving an | ||
961 | * eraseblock which belongs to this volume, we'll end up with finding | ||
962 | * out that this LEB was unmapped at the end (see WL), and drop this | ||
963 | * PEB. | ||
958 | */ | 964 | */ |
959 | spin_lock(&ubi->volumes_lock); | 965 | spin_lock(&ubi->volumes_lock); |
960 | vol = ubi->volumes[idx]; | 966 | vol = ubi->volumes[idx]; |