Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] mm/sparse: Clean up the obsolete code comment

[Mike Rapoport]

On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 05:02:24PM +0800, Baoquan He wrote:
> The code comment above sparse_add_one_section() is obsolete and
> incorrect, clean it up and write new one.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
> v1-v2:
>   Add comments to explain what the returned value means for
>   each error code.
> 
>  mm/sparse.c | 15 ++++++++++++---
>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/sparse.c b/mm/sparse.c
> index 69904aa6165b..b2111f996aa6 100644
> --- a/mm/sparse.c
> +++ b/mm/sparse.c
> @@ -685,9 +685,18 @@ static void free_map_bootmem(struct page *memmap)
>  #endif /* CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP */
>  
>  /*
> - * returns the number of sections whose mem_maps were properly
> - * set.  If this is <=0, then that means that the passed-in
> - * map was not consumed and must be freed.
> + * sparse_add_one_section - add a memory section
> + * @nid: The node to add section on
> + * @start_pfn: start pfn of the memory range
> + * @altmap: device page map
> + *
> + * This is only intended for hotplug.
> + *
> + * Returns:
> + *   0 on success.
> + *   Other error code on failure:
> + *     - -EEXIST - section has been present.
> + *     - -ENOMEM - out of memory.
>   */
>  int __meminit sparse_add_one_section(int nid, unsigned long start_pfn,
>  				     struct vmem_altmap *altmap)
> -- 
> 2.17.2
> 

-- 
Sincerely yours,
Mike.