Re: [PATCH v2] design: fix computation of buffer log item bitmap size

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On 04 Jan 2022 at 07:28, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> From: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Wengang Wang was trying to work through a buffer log item by consulting
> the ondisk format documentation, and was confused by the formula given
> in section 14.3.14 regarding the size of blf_data_map, aka the dirty
> bitmap for buffer log items.  We noticed that the documentation doesn't
> match what the kernel actually does, so let's fix this.
>
> Reported-by: Wengang Wang <wen.gang.wang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx>

Looks good.

Reviewed-by: Chandan Babu R <chandan.babu@xxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
>  .../journaling_log.asciidoc                        |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/design/XFS_Filesystem_Structure/journaling_log.asciidoc b/design/XFS_Filesystem_Structure/journaling_log.asciidoc
> index 8421a53..ddcb87f 100644
> --- a/design/XFS_Filesystem_Structure/journaling_log.asciidoc
> +++ b/design/XFS_Filesystem_Structure/journaling_log.asciidoc
> @@ -867,7 +867,7 @@ The size of +blf_data_map+, in 32-bit words.
>  This variable-sized array acts as a dirty bitmap for the logged buffer.  Each
>  1 bit represents a dirty region in the buffer, and each run of 1 bits
>  corresponds to a subsequent log item containing the new contents of the buffer
> -area.  Each bit represents +(blf_len * 512) / (blf_map_size * NBBY)+ bytes.
> +area.  Each bit represents +XFS_BLF_CHUNK+ (i.e. 128) bytes.
>  
>  [[Buffer_Data_Log_Item]]
>  === Buffer Data Log Item


-- 
chandan



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