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[v1,09/13] qcow2: fix misleading comment about L2 linking

Message ID 1495186480-114192-10-git-send-email-anton.nefedov@virtuozzo.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Anton Nefedov May 19, 2017, 9:34 a.m. UTC 
Signed-off-by: Anton Nefedov <anton.nefedov@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
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 block/qcow2-cluster.c | 10 ++++------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/block/qcow2-cluster.c b/block/qcow2-cluster.c
index 25210cd..4204db9 100644
--- a/block/qcow2-cluster.c
+++ b/block/qcow2-cluster.c
@@ -827,12 +827,10 @@  int qcow2_alloc_cluster_link_l2(BlockDriverState *bs, QCowL2Meta *m)
 
     assert(l2_index + m->nb_clusters <= s->l2_size);
     for (i = 0; i < m->nb_clusters; i++) {
-        /* if two concurrent writes happen to the same unallocated cluster
-         * each write allocates separate cluster and writes data concurrently.
-         * The first one to complete updates l2 table with pointer to its
-         * cluster the second one has to do RMW (which is done above by
-         * perform_cow()), update l2 table with its cluster pointer and free
-         * old cluster. This is what this loop does */
+        /* handle_dependencies() protects from normal cluster allocation
+         * collision; still L2 entry might be !0 in case of zero or compressed
+         * cluster reusage or writing over the snapshot
+         */
         if (l2_table[l2_index + i] != 0) {
             old_cluster[j++] = l2_table[l2_index + i];
         }