Re: [Patch v4 03/18] KVM: x86/mmu: Track count of pages in KVM MMU page caches globally

From: Sean Christopherson
Date: Tue Mar 07 2023 - 15:18:17 EST


On Tue, Mar 07, 2023, Vipin Sharma wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 7, 2023 at 3:33 AM kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Vipin,
> >
> > Thank you for the patch! Perhaps something to improve:
> >
> > [auto build test WARNING on kvm/queue]
> > [also build test WARNING on kvmarm/next linus/master v6.3-rc1 next-20230307]
> > [cannot apply to mst-vhost/linux-next kvm/linux-next]
> > [If your patch is applied to the wrong git tree, kindly drop us a note.
> > And when submitting patch, we suggest to use '--base' as documented in
> > https://git-scm.com/docs/git-format-patch#_base_tree_information]
> >
> > All warnings (new ones prefixed by >>):
> >
> > >> arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c:676: warning: This comment starts with '/**', but isn't a kernel-doc comment. Refer Documentation/doc-guide/kernel-doc.rst
>
> > vim +676 arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
> >
> > 674
> > 675 /**
> > > 676 * Caller should hold mutex lock corresponding to cache, if available.
> > 677 */
>
> I will fix it in the next version.

Don't bother reworking the code/comment, I will likely have feedback that results
in the demise of the comment altogether (comments that say "lock X must be held"
are almost always flawed).