Re: [PATCH 1/6] genalloc: track beginning of allocations

From: Igor Stoppa
Date: Mon Feb 12 2018 - 06:17:29 EST




On 11/02/18 14:24, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 11, 2018 at 05:19:15AM +0200, Igor Stoppa wrote:
[...]

>> +/**
>> + * mem_to_units - convert references to memory into orders of allocation
>
> Documentation/doc-guide/kernel-doc.rst recommends to to include brackets
> for function comments. I haven't noticed any difference in the resulting
> html, so I'm not sure if the brackets are actually required.

This is what I see in the example from mailine docs:

/**
* foobar() - Brief description of foobar.
* @argument1: Description of parameter argument1 of foobar.
* @argument2: Description of parameter argument2 of foobar.
*
* Longer description of foobar.
*
* Return: Description of return value of foobar.
*/
int foobar(int argument1, char *argument2)


What are you referring to?

[...]

>> + * @size: amount in bytes
>> + * @order: power of 2 represented by each entry in the bitmap
>> + *
>> + * Returns the number of units representing the size.
>
> Please s/Return/Return:/

:-( I thought I had fixed them all. thanks for spotting this.

[...]

>> + * Return: If two users alter the same bit, to one it will return
>> + * remaining entries, to the other it will return 0.
>
> And what if there are three or four concurrent users? ;-)
>
> I believe that a more elaborate description about what happens with
> concurrent attempts to alter the bitmap would be really helpful.

ok

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thanks, igor