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Diffstat (limited to 'fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c | 16 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c index 1f9857e3630a..4f5f2ff3f70f 100644 --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c @@ -776,10 +776,26 @@ _xfs_buf_read( } /* + * Set buffer ops on an unchecked buffer and validate it, if possible. + * * If the caller passed in an ops structure and the buffer doesn't have ops * assigned, set the ops and use them to verify the contents. If the contents * cannot be verified, we'll clear XBF_DONE. We assume the buffer has no * recorded errors and is already in XBF_DONE state. + * + * Under normal operations, every in-core buffer must have buffer ops assigned + * to them when the buffer is read in from disk so that we can validate the + * metadata. + * + * However, there are two scenarios where one can encounter in-core buffers + * that don't have buffer ops. The first is during log recovery of buffers on + * a V4 filesystem, though these buffers are purged at the end of recovery. + * + * The other is online repair, which tries to match arbitrary metadata blocks + * with btree types in order to find the root. If online repair doesn't match + * the buffer with /any/ btree type, the buffer remains in memory in DONE state + * with no ops, and a subsequent read_buf call from elsewhere will not set the + * ops. This function helps us fix this situation. */ int xfs_buf_ensure_ops( |