[PATCH v4 1/3] btrfs: add extra comments on extent_map members

[Qu Wenruo <wqu@suse.com>]

The extent_map structure is very critical to btrfs, as it is involved
for both read and write paths.

Unfortunately the structure is not properly explained, making it pretty
hard to understand nor to do further improvement.

This patch adds extra comments explaining the major members based on
my code reading.
Hopefully we can find more members to cleanup in the future.

Signed-off-by: Qu Wenruo <wqu@suse.com>
---
 fs/btrfs/extent_map.h | 58 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 57 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/btrfs/extent_map.h b/fs/btrfs/extent_map.h
index 10e9491865c9..1b8a55e4b678 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/extent_map.h
+++ b/fs/btrfs/extent_map.h
@@ -35,19 +35,75 @@ enum {
 };
 
 /*
+ * This structure represents file extents and holes.
+ *
+ * Unlike on-disk file extent items, extent maps can be merged to
+ * save memory.
+ * This means members only match file extent items before any merging.
+ * And users of extent_map should never assume the members are always
+ * matching an on-disk file extent item.
+ *
  * Keep this structure as compact as possible, as we can have really large
  * amounts of allocated extent maps at any time.
  */
 struct extent_map {
 	struct rb_node rb_node;
 
-	/* all of these are in bytes */
+	/* All of these are in bytes. */
+
+	/* File offset matching the offset of a BTRFS_EXTENT_ITEM_KEY key. */
 	u64 start;
+
+	/*
+	 * Length of the file extent.
+	 *
+	 * For non-inlined file extents it's btrfs_file_extent_item::num_bytes.
+	 * For inline extents it's sectorsize, since inline data starts at
+	 * offsetof(struct btrfs_file_extent_item, disk_bytenr) thus
+	 * btrfs_file_extent_item::num_bytes is not valid.
+	 */
 	u64 len;
+
+	/*
+	 * The file offset of the original file extent before splitting.
+	 *
+	 * This is an in-memory only member, matching
+	 * extent_map::start - btrfs_file_extent_item::offset for
+	 * regular/preallocated extents. EXTENT_MAP_HOLE otherwise.
+	 */
 	u64 orig_start;
+
+	/*
+	 * The full on-disk extent length, matching
+	 * btrfs_file_extent_item::disk_num_bytes.
+	 */
 	u64 orig_block_len;
+
+	/*
+	 * The decompressed size of the whole on-disk extent, matching
+	 * btrfs_file_extent_item::ram_bytes.
+	 */
 	u64 ram_bytes;
+
+	/*
+	 * The on-disk logical bytenr for the file extent.
+	 *
+	 * For compressed extents it matches btrfs_file_extent_item::disk_bytenr.
+	 * For uncompressed extents it matches
+	 * btrfs_file_extent_item::disk_bytenr + btrfs_file_extent_item::offset
+	 *
+	 * For holes it is EXTENT_MAP_HOLE and for inline extents it is
+	 * EXTENT_MAP_INLINE.
+	 */
 	u64 block_start;
+
+	/*
+	 * The on-disk length for the file extent.
+	 *
+	 * For compressed extents it matches btrfs_file_extent_item::disk_num_bytes.
+	 * For uncompressed extents it matches extent_map::len.
+	 * For holes and inline extents it's -1 and shouldn't be used.
+	 */
 	u64 block_len;
 
 	/*
-- 
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