Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2020 22:37:24 +0000 (UTC) From: Kirk McKusick <mckusick@FreeBSD.org> To: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable-12@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r368494 - in stable/12/sys: fs/ext2fs ufs/ufs Message-ID: <202012092237.0B9MbO1B074992@repo.freebsd.org>
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Author: mckusick Date: Wed Dec 9 22:37:23 2020 New Revision: 368494 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/368494 Log: MFC of 368396 and 368425. Document BA_CLRBUF flag. Sponsored by: Netflix Modified: stable/12/sys/fs/ext2fs/ext2_extern.h stable/12/sys/ufs/ufs/ufs_extern.h Directory Properties: stable/12/ (props changed) Modified: stable/12/sys/fs/ext2fs/ext2_extern.h ============================================================================== --- stable/12/sys/fs/ext2fs/ext2_extern.h Wed Dec 9 20:38:26 2020 (r368493) +++ stable/12/sys/fs/ext2fs/ext2_extern.h Wed Dec 9 22:37:23 2020 (r368494) @@ -135,6 +135,13 @@ void ext2_gd_csum_set(struct m_ext2fs *); /* Flags to low-level allocation routines. * The low 16-bits are reserved for IO_ flags from vnode.h. + * + * The BA_CLRBUF flag specifies that the existing content of the block + * will not be completely overwritten by the caller, so buffers for new + * blocks must be cleared and buffers for existing blocks must be read. + * When BA_CLRBUF is not set the buffer will be completely overwritten + * and there is no reason to clear them or to spend I/O fetching existing + * data. The BA_CLRBUF flag is handled in the ext2_balloc() functions. */ #define BA_CLRBUF 0x00010000 /* Clear invalid areas of buffer. */ #define BA_SEQMASK 0x7F000000 /* Bits holding seq heuristic. */ Modified: stable/12/sys/ufs/ufs/ufs_extern.h ============================================================================== --- stable/12/sys/ufs/ufs/ufs_extern.h Wed Dec 9 20:38:26 2020 (r368493) +++ stable/12/sys/ufs/ufs/ufs_extern.h Wed Dec 9 22:37:23 2020 (r368494) @@ -119,6 +119,13 @@ void softdep_revert_rmdir(struct inode *, struct inode * * Note: The general vfs code typically limits the sequential heuristic * count to 127. See sequential_heuristic() in kern/vfs_vnops.c + * + * The BA_CLRBUF flag specifies that the existing content of the block + * will not be completely overwritten by the caller, so buffers for new + * blocks must be cleared and buffers for existing blocks must be read. + * When BA_CLRBUF is not set the buffer will be completely overwritten + * and there is no reason to clear them or to spend I/O fetching existing + * data. The BA_CLRBUF flag is handled in the UFS_BALLOC() functions. */ #define BA_CLRBUF 0x00010000 /* Clear invalid areas of buffer. */ #define BA_METAONLY 0x00020000 /* Return indirect block buffer. */
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