[PATCH] Documentation: kernel-api: add bitmap operations from linux/bitmap.h

From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Sun Sep 17 2017 - 22:07:18 EST


From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Add <linux/bitmap.h> to kernel-api Bitmap Operations section.
Fix kernel-doc nitpicks in <linux/bitmap.h>.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Yury Norov <ynorov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/core-api/kernel-api.rst | 3 +++
include/linux/bitmap.h | 9 +++++----
2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- lnx-414-rc1.orig/Documentation/core-api/kernel-api.rst
+++ lnx-414-rc1/Documentation/core-api/kernel-api.rst
@@ -59,6 +59,9 @@ Bitmap Operations
.. kernel-doc:: lib/bitmap.c
:internal:

+.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/bitmap.h
+ :internal:
+
Command-line Parsing
--------------------

--- lnx-414-rc1.orig/include/linux/bitmap.h
+++ lnx-414-rc1/include/linux/bitmap.h
@@ -360,8 +360,9 @@ static inline int bitmap_parse(const cha
return __bitmap_parse(buf, buflen, 0, maskp, nmaskbits);
}

-/*
+/**
* BITMAP_FROM_U64() - Represent u64 value in the format suitable for bitmap.
+ * @n: u64 value
*
* Linux bitmaps are internally arrays of unsigned longs, i.e. 32-bit
* integers in 32-bit environment, and 64-bit integers in 64-bit one.
@@ -392,14 +393,14 @@ static inline int bitmap_parse(const cha
((unsigned long) ((u64)(n) >> 32))
#endif

-/*
+/**
* bitmap_from_u64 - Check and swap words within u64.
* @mask: source bitmap
* @dst: destination bitmap
*
- * In 32-bit Big Endian kernel, when using (u32 *)(&val)[*]
+ * In 32-bit Big Endian kernel, when using ``(u32 *)(&val)[*]``
* to read u64 mask, we will get the wrong word.
- * That is "(u32 *)(&val)[0]" gets the upper 32 bits,
+ * That is ``(u32 *)(&val)[0]`` gets the upper 32 bits,
* but we expect the lower 32-bits of u64.
*/
static inline void bitmap_from_u64(unsigned long *dst, u64 mask)