Commit 66924fda authored by Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)'s avatar Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Committed by Andrew Morton

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.orgSigned-off-by: default avatarMatthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Tested-by: default avatarRandy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Pankaj Raghav <p.raghav@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
parent 324ecaee
......@@ -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");
......
......@@ -303,6 +303,22 @@ static inline void put_bh(struct buffer_head *bh)
atomic_dec(&bh->b_count);
}
/**
* brelse - Release a buffer.
* @bh: The buffer to release.
*
* Decrement a buffer_head's reference count. If @bh is NULL, this
* function is a no-op.
*
* If all buffers on a folio have zero reference count, are clean
* and unlocked, and if the folio is unlocked and not under writeback
* then try_to_free_buffers() may strip the buffers from the folio in
* preparation for freeing it (sometimes, rarely, buffers are removed
* from a folio but it ends up not being freed, and buffers may later
* be reattached).
*
* Context: Any context.
*/
static inline void brelse(struct buffer_head *bh)
{
if (bh)
......
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