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authorSascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>2017-03-24 17:52:48 +0100
committerSascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>2017-03-31 13:57:56 +0200
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state: backend bucket circular: Explain metadata
Explain why we have metadata and where it is used. Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
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-rw-r--r--src/barebox-state/backend_bucket_circular.c5
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diff --git a/src/barebox-state/backend_bucket_circular.c b/src/barebox-state/backend_bucket_circular.c
index 5a525f6..d99ba39 100644
--- a/src/barebox-state/backend_bucket_circular.c
+++ b/src/barebox-state/backend_bucket_circular.c
@@ -61,6 +61,11 @@ struct state_backend_storage_bucket_circular {
struct device_d *dev;
};
+/*
+ * The metadata will be written directly before writesize aligned offsets.
+ * When searching backwards through the pages it allows us to find the
+ * beginning of the data.
+ */
struct __attribute__((__packed__)) state_backend_storage_bucket_circular_meta {
uint32_t magic;
uint32_t written_length;