rbd: document rbd_spec structure

I promised Josh I would document whether there were any restrictions
needed for accessing fields of an rbd_spec structure.  This adds a
big block of comments that documents the structure and how it is
used--including the fact that we don't attempt to synchronize access
to it.

Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <elder@inktank.com>
Reviewed-by: David Zafman <david.zafman@inktank.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Durgin <josh.durgin@inktank.com>
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Alex Elder 2012-11-01 08:39:26 -05:00 committed by Alex Elder
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@ -119,7 +119,26 @@ struct rbd_image_header {
* An rbd image specification.
*
* The tuple (pool_id, image_id, snap_id) is sufficient to uniquely
* identify an image.
* identify an image. Each rbd_dev structure includes a pointer to
* an rbd_spec structure that encapsulates this identity.
*
* Each of the id's in an rbd_spec has an associated name. For a
* user-mapped image, the names are supplied and the id's associated
* with them are looked up. For a layered image, a parent image is
* defined by the tuple, and the names are looked up.
*
* An rbd_dev structure contains a parent_spec pointer which is
* non-null if the image it represents is a child in a layered
* image. This pointer will refer to the rbd_spec structure used
* by the parent rbd_dev for its own identity (i.e., the structure
* is shared between the parent and child).
*
* Since these structures are populated once, during the discovery
* phase of image construction, they are effectively immutable so
* we make no effort to synchronize access to them.
*
* Note that code herein does not assume the image name is known (it
* could be a null pointer).
*/
struct rbd_spec {
u64 pool_id;