mballoc: add comments to ext4_mb_mark_free_simple()

This patch adds comments to ext4_mb_mark_free_simple to make it more
understandable.

Signed-off-by: Coly Li <bosong.ly@taobao.com>
Cc: Alex Tomas <alex@clusterfs.com>
Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@google.com>

diff --git a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
index 7de0e28..b5235c8 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
@@ -635,7 +635,12 @@ static int __mb_check_buddy(struct ext4_buddy *e4b, char *file,
 #define mb_check_buddy(e4b)
 #endif
 
-/* FIXME!! need more doc */
+/*
+ * Divide blocks started from @first with length @len into
+ * smaller chunks with power of 2 blocks.
+ * Clear the bits in bitmap which the blocks of the chunk(s) covered,
+ * then increase bb_counters[] for corresponded chunk size.
+ */
 static void ext4_mb_mark_free_simple(struct super_block *sb,
                                void *buddy, ext4_grpblk_t first, ext4_grpblk_t len,
                                        struct ext4_group_info *grp)