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From: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v3 6/8] buffer: Add kernel-doc for bforget() and __bforget()
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2024 04:17:50 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240416031754.4076917-7-willy@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240416031754.4076917-1-willy@infradead.org>

Distinguish these functions from brelse() and __brelse().

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
---
 fs/buffer.c                 |  9 ++++++---
 include/linux/buffer_head.h | 10 ++++++++++
 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c
index e5beca3868a7..60829312787a 100644
--- a/fs/buffer.c
+++ b/fs/buffer.c
@@ -1242,9 +1242,12 @@ void __brelse(struct buffer_head *bh)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(__brelse);
 
-/*
- * bforget() is like brelse(), except it discards any
- * potentially dirty data.
+/**
+ * __bforget - Discard any dirty data in a buffer.
+ * @bh: The buffer to forget.
+ *
+ * This variant of bforget() can be called if @bh is guaranteed to not
+ * be NULL.
  */
 void __bforget(struct buffer_head *bh)
 {
diff --git a/include/linux/buffer_head.h b/include/linux/buffer_head.h
index c145817c6ca0..a1c0bdd0cca6 100644
--- a/include/linux/buffer_head.h
+++ b/include/linux/buffer_head.h
@@ -325,6 +325,16 @@ static inline void brelse(struct buffer_head *bh)
 		__brelse(bh);
 }
 
+/**
+ * bforget - Discard any dirty data in a buffer.
+ * @bh: The buffer to forget.
+ *
+ * Call this function instead of brelse() if the data written to a buffer
+ * no longer needs to be written back.  It will clear the buffer's dirty
+ * flag so writeback of this buffer will be skipped.
+ *
+ * Context: Any context.
+ */
 static inline void bforget(struct buffer_head *bh)
 {
 	if (bh)
-- 
2.43.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-04-16  3:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-04-16  3:17 [PATCH v3 0/8] Improve buffer head documentation Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2024-04-16  3:17 ` [PATCH v3 1/8] doc: Improve the description of __folio_mark_dirty Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2024-04-16  3:17 ` [PATCH v3 2/8] buffer: Add kernel-doc for block_dirty_folio() Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2024-04-17  2:10   ` Randy Dunlap
2024-04-16  3:17 ` [PATCH v3 3/8] buffer: Add kernel-doc for try_to_free_buffers() Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2024-04-17  2:11   ` Randy Dunlap
2024-04-16  3:17 ` [PATCH v3 4/8] buffer: Fix __bread and __bread_gfp kernel-doc Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2024-04-17  2:12   ` Randy Dunlap
2024-04-16  3:17 ` [PATCH v3 5/8] buffer: Add kernel-doc for brelse() and __brelse() Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2024-04-17  2:13   ` Randy Dunlap
2024-04-16  3:17 ` Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) [this message]
2024-04-17  2:13   ` [PATCH v3 6/8] buffer: Add kernel-doc for bforget() and __bforget() Randy Dunlap
2024-04-16  3:17 ` [PATCH v3 7/8] buffer: Improve bdev_getblk documentation Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2024-04-16  3:17 ` [PATCH v3 8/8] doc: Split buffer.rst out of api-summary.rst Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2024-04-16 22:18   ` Randy Dunlap
2024-04-16 22:38     ` Randy Dunlap
2024-04-16 23:47     ` Matthew Wilcox
2024-04-17  1:57 ` [PATCH v3 8a/8] " Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2024-04-17  2:14   ` Randy Dunlap

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