From: Joe Thornber Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 17:41:24 +0000 (+0100) Subject: dm thin: correct comments X-Git-Url: https://git.stricted.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=fe878f34df89ad4af758f40bbec829807dc93a00;p=GitHub%2FLineageOS%2FG12%2Fandroid_kernel_amlogic_linux-4.9.git dm thin: correct comments Remove documentation for unimplemented 'trim' message. I'd planned a 'trim' target message for shrinking thin devices, but this is better handled via the discard ioctl. Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon --- diff --git a/Documentation/device-mapper/thin-provisioning.txt b/Documentation/device-mapper/thin-provisioning.txt index 1ff044d87ca4..da50347c0053 100644 --- a/Documentation/device-mapper/thin-provisioning.txt +++ b/Documentation/device-mapper/thin-provisioning.txt @@ -237,16 +237,6 @@ iii) Messages Deletes a thin device. Irreversible. - trim - - Delete mappings from the end of a thin device. Irreversible. - You might want to use this if you're reducing the size of - your thinly-provisioned device. In many cases, due to the - sharing of blocks between devices, it is not possible to - determine in advance how much space 'trim' will release. (In - future a userspace tool might be able to perform this - calculation.) - set_transaction_id Userland volume managers, such as LVM, need a way to diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-thin.c b/drivers/md/dm-thin.c index da2f0217df66..1791134cf477 100644 --- a/drivers/md/dm-thin.c +++ b/drivers/md/dm-thin.c @@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ * missed out if the io covers the block. (schedule_copy). * * iv) insert the new mapping into the origin's btree - * (process_prepared_mappings). This act of inserting breaks some + * (process_prepared_mapping). This act of inserting breaks some * sharing of btree nodes between the two devices. Breaking sharing only * effects the btree of that specific device. Btrees for the other * devices that share the block never change. The btree for the origin