comment fixes

2 files changed, 12 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/bio.c b/bio.c
index fd3a47c..a61ff72 100644
--- a/bio.c
+++ b/bio.c
@@ -75,9 +75,9 @@ bget(uint dev, uint blockno)
     }
   }
 
-  // Not cached; recycle some unused buffer and clean buffer
-  // "clean" because B_DIRTY and not locked means log.c
-  // hasn't yet committed the changes to the buffer.
+  // Not cached; recycle an unused buffer.
+  // Even if refcnt==0, B_DIRTY indicates a buffer is in use
+  // because log.c has modified it but not yet committed it.
   for(b = bcache.head.prev; b != &bcache.head; b = b->prev){
     if(b->refcnt == 0 && (b->flags & B_DIRTY) == 0) {
       b->dev = dev;
diff --git a/fs.c b/fs.c
index 8bec001..8fb09ef 100644
--- a/fs.c
+++ b/fs.c
@@ -155,10 +155,10 @@ bfree(int dev, uint b)
 // have locked the inodes involved; this lets callers create
 // multi-step atomic operations.
 //
-// The icache.lock spin-lock defends ip->ref, ip->dev, and ip->inum.
-// Since ip->ref indicates whether an icache entry is free, the
-// icache.lock defends icache allocation. icache.lock also defends
-// all fields of an unallocated icache entry, during allocation.
+// The icache.lock spin-lock defends the allocation of icache
+// entries. Since ip->ref indicates whether an entry is free,
+// and ip->dev and ip->inum indicate which i-node an entry
+// holds, one must hold icache.lock while using any of those fields.
 //
 // An ip->lock sleep-lock defends all ip-> fields other than ref,
 // dev, and inum.  One must hold ip->lock in order to
@@ -189,8 +189,9 @@ iinit(int dev)
 static struct inode* iget(uint dev, uint inum);
 
 //PAGEBREAK!
-// Allocate a new inode with the given type on device dev.
-// A free inode has a type of zero.
+// Allocate an inode on device dev.
+// Give it type type.
+// Returns an unlocked but allocated and referenced inode.
 struct inode*
 ialloc(uint dev, short type)
 {
@@ -214,6 +215,8 @@ ialloc(uint dev, short type)
 }
 
 // Copy a modified in-memory inode to disk.
+// Must be called after every change to an ip->xxx field
+// that lives on disk, since i-node cache is write-through.
 // Caller must hold ip->lock.
 void
 iupdate(struct inode *ip)