Re: [PATCH 1/2] zsmalloc: introduce zs_huge_object() function

From: Mike Rapoport
Date: Fri Feb 09 2018 - 06:11:18 EST


On Fri, Feb 09, 2018 at 02:36:30PM +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> On (02/08/18 20:10), Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> [..]
> > Examples::
> >
> > * Context: Any context.
> > * Context: Any context. Takes and releases the RCU lock.
> > * Context: Any context. Expects <lock> to be held by caller.
> > * Context: Process context. May sleep if @gfp flags permit.
> > * Context: Process context. Takes and releases <mutex>.
> > * Context: Softirq or process context. Takes and releases <lock>, BH-safe.
> > * Context: Interrupt context.
>
> I assume that <mutex> spelling serves as a placeholder and should be
> replaced with a lock name in a real comment. E.g.
>
> Takes and releases audit_cmd_mutex.
>
> or should it actually be
>
> Takes and releases <audit_cmd_mutex>.
>
>
>
>
> So below is zs_huge_object() documentation I came up with:
>
> ---
>
> +/**
> + * zs_huge_object() - Test if a compressed object's size is too big for normal
> + * zspool classes and it will be stored in a huge class.

Maybe "it should be stored ..."?

> + * @sz: Size in bytes of the compressed object.
> + *
> + * The functions checks if the object's size falls into huge_class area.
> + * We must take ZS_HANDLE_SIZE into account and test the actual size we

^ %ZS_HANDLE_SIZE

> + * are going to use up, because zs_malloc() unconditionally adds the

I think 's/use up/use/' here

> + * handle size before it performs size_class lookup.

^ &size_class
> + *
> + * Context: Any context.
> + *
> + * Return:
> + * * true - The object's size is too big, it will be stored in a huge class.
> + * * false - The object will be store in normal zspool classes.
> + */
> ---
>
> looks OK?
>
> -ss
>

--
Sincerely yours,
Mike.