ocfs2: Explain t_is_new in ocfs2_cp_xattr_cluster().

I was unsure of the JOURNAL_ACCESS parameters in
ocfs2_cp_xattr_cluster().  They're based on the function argument
't_is_new', but I couldn't quite figure out how t_is_new mapped to
allocation.  ocfs2_cp_xattr_cluster() actually overwrites the target,
regardless of t_is_new.

Well, I just figured it out.  So I'm adding a big fat comment for those
who come after me.  ocfs2_divide_xattr_cluster() has the same behavior.

Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>

diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/xattr.c b/fs/ocfs2/xattr.c
index 4dba34758827049fdd9519c09c361a88f15282be..5efcf4e85d7cf68870d14c8f3bfed11efca4b952 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/ocfs2/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/xattr.c
@@ -3747,6 +3747,11 @@ static int ocfs2_divide_xattr_bucket(struct inode *inode,
                goto out;
        }
 
+       /*
+        * Hey, if we're overwriting t_bucket, what difference does
+        * ACCESS_CREATE vs ACCESS_WRITE make?  See the comment in the
+        * same part of ocfs2_cp_xattr_bucket().
+        */
        ret = ocfs2_xattr_bucket_journal_access(handle, t_bucket,
                                                new_bucket_head ?
                                                OCFS2_JOURNAL_ACCESS_CREATE :
@@ -3918,6 +3923,18 @@ static int ocfs2_cp_xattr_bucket(struct inode *inode,
        if (ret)
                goto out;
 
+       /*
+        * Hey, if we're overwriting t_bucket, what difference does
+        * ACCESS_CREATE vs ACCESS_WRITE make?  Well, if we allocated a new
+        * cluster to fill, we came here from ocfs2_cp_xattr_cluster(), and
+        * it is really new - ACCESS_CREATE is required.  But we also
+        * might have moved data out of t_bucket before extending back
+        * into it.  ocfs2_add_new_xattr_bucket() can do this - its call
+        * to ocfs2_add_new_xattr_cluster() may have created a new extent
+        * and copied out the end of the old extent.  Then it re-extends
+        * the old extent back to create space for new xattrs.  That's
+        * how we get here, and the bucket isn't really new.
+        */
        ret = ocfs2_xattr_bucket_journal_access(handle, t_bucket,
                                                t_is_new ?
                                                OCFS2_JOURNAL_ACCESS_CREATE :