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author | Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> | 2007-12-17 11:21:07 (GMT) |
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committer | Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> | 2007-12-26 17:15:15 (GMT) |
commit | c63a491d3737aec3c47c5e785d87021752ad9fa6 (patch) | |
tree | 0fc3a0dee3493d52997426a745c52ff8d2287225 /drivers/mtd | |
parent | cae0a77125467c42f0918e78457913ee4a2f925b (diff) | |
download | linux-fsl-qoriq-c63a491d3737aec3c47c5e785d87021752ad9fa6.tar.xz |
UBI: add some more comments
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/mtd')
-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 b2b0f29..2ff3492 100644 --- a/drivers/mtd/ubi/eba.c +++ b/drivers/mtd/ubi/eba.c @@ -797,7 +797,7 @@ write_error: /* * ubi_eba_atomic_leb_change - change logical eraseblock atomically. * @ubi: UBI device description object - * @vol: volume escription object + * @vol: volume description object * @lnum: logical eraseblock number * @buf: data to write * @len: how many bytes to write @@ -955,6 +955,12 @@ int ubi_eba_copy_leb(struct ubi_device *ubi, int from, int to, /* * We may race with volume deletion/re-size, so we have to hold * @ubi->volumes_lock. + * + * Note, it is not a problem if we race with volume deletion or re-size + * here. If the volume is deleted or re-sized while we are moving an + * eraseblock which belongs to this volume, we'll end up with finding + * out that this LEB was unmapped at the end (see WL), and drop this + * PEB. */ spin_lock(&ubi->volumes_lock); vol = ubi->volumes[idx]; |