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authorMatthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>2024-04-16 04:17:49 +0100
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2024-05-05 17:53:39 -0700
commit66924fdaf835f5fc6fe78d92a79afcca7d4db7ec (patch)
tree2a646392de386ea366f7cdee02d49dd90e32e58d /fs/buffer.c
parent324ecaee46f86c1eaf083fd82eaf997335e70163 (diff)
buffer: add kernel-doc for brelse() and __brelse()
Move the documentation for __brelse() to brelse(), format it as kernel-doc and update it from talking about pages to folios. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240416031754.4076917-6-willy@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Pankaj Raghav <p.raghav@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/buffer.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/buffer.c17
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c
index 32ab3eddc44f..e5beca3868a7 100644
--- a/fs/buffer.c
+++ b/fs/buffer.c
@@ -1226,17 +1226,16 @@ void mark_buffer_write_io_error(struct buffer_head *bh)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(mark_buffer_write_io_error);
-/*
- * Decrement a buffer_head's reference count. If all buffers against a page
- * have zero reference count, are clean and unlocked, and if the page is clean
- * and unlocked then try_to_free_buffers() may strip the buffers from the page
- * in preparation for freeing it (sometimes, rarely, buffers are removed from
- * a page but it ends up not being freed, and buffers may later be reattached).
+/**
+ * __brelse - Release a buffer.
+ * @bh: The buffer to release.
+ *
+ * This variant of brelse() can be called if @bh is guaranteed to not be NULL.
*/
-void __brelse(struct buffer_head * buf)
+void __brelse(struct buffer_head *bh)
{
- if (atomic_read(&buf->b_count)) {
- put_bh(buf);
+ if (atomic_read(&bh->b_count)) {
+ put_bh(bh);
return;
}
WARN(1, KERN_ERR "VFS: brelse: Trying to free free buffer\n");