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authorAnand Jain <anand.jain@oracle.com>2018-04-12 10:29:32 +0800
committerDavid Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>2018-05-28 18:23:14 +0200
commit3dd0f7a3644eed9017f62ccd0067a91e8260d097 (patch)
tree260dcd8c0c37507536b947a29822367388358da6 /fs/btrfs
parent41a52a0f1bdcb3a17e2b384d6b6368a9590f9a58 (diff)
btrfs: document uuid_mutex uasge in read_chunk_tree
read_chunk_tree() calls read_one_dev(), but for seed device we have to search the fs_uuids list, so we need the uuid_mutex. Add a comment comment, so that we can improve this part. Signed-off-by: Anand Jain <anand.jain@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com> Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/btrfs')
-rw-r--r--fs/btrfs/volumes.c4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/volumes.c b/fs/btrfs/volumes.c
index a382d53c560a..6eec1e3f9083 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/volumes.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/volumes.c
@@ -6932,6 +6932,10 @@ int btrfs_read_chunk_tree(struct btrfs_fs_info *fs_info)
if (!path)
return -ENOMEM;
+ /*
+ * uuid_mutex is needed only if we are mounting a sprout FS
+ * otherwise we don't need it.
+ */
mutex_lock(&uuid_mutex);
mutex_lock(&fs_info->chunk_mutex);