[PATCH v3] power: swap: Fix comment style and clean up outdated function headers

From: Sunday Adelodun

Date: Fri Nov 14 2025 - 17:04:50 EST


Several static functions in kernel/power/swap.c were written using the
kernel-doc comment style (/** ... */) even though they are not exported
or referenced by generated documentation. This led to kernel-doc warnings
and stylistic inconsistencies.

Convert these unnecessary kernel-doc blocks to regular C comments,
remove comment blocks that are no longer useful, relocate comments to
more appropriate positions where needed, and fix a few "Return:"
descriptions that were either missing or incorrectly formatted.

No functional changes.

Signed-off-by: Sunday Adelodun <adelodunolaoluwa@xxxxxxxxx>
---
changelog:

Changes from v2:
- Moved the swsusp_swap_check() comment inside the function as requested.
- Dropped comment blocks that no longer provided meaningful value.
- Removed unnecessary blank lines before function definitions.
- Reformatted multi-line Return: descriptions into a single line where appropriate.
- Kept only useful non-kernel-doc comments consistent with style guidelines.

Changes from v1:
- Converted /** */ kernel-doc style blocks to /* */ regular comments.
- Cleaned up indentation and spacing.

link to v2:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251113110914.44223-1-adelodunolaoluwa@xxxxxxxxx/

kernel/power/swap.c | 58 ++++++++++-----------------------------------
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 46 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/power/swap.c b/kernel/power/swap.c
index 0beff7eeaaba..cf5736aabb39 100644
--- a/kernel/power/swap.c
+++ b/kernel/power/swap.c
@@ -336,16 +336,14 @@ static int mark_swapfiles(struct swap_map_handle *handle, unsigned int flags)
*/
unsigned int swsusp_header_flags;

-/**
- * swsusp_swap_check - check if the resume device is a swap device
- * and get its index (if so)
- *
- * This is called before saving image
- */
static int swsusp_swap_check(void)
{
int res;

+ /*
+ * check if the resume device is a swap device and get its index (if so).
+ * This is called before saving image
+ */
if (swsusp_resume_device)
res = swap_type_of(swsusp_resume_device, swsusp_resume_block);
else
@@ -362,13 +360,6 @@ static int swsusp_swap_check(void)
return 0;
}

-/**
- * write_page - Write one page to given swap location.
- * @buf: Address we're writing.
- * @offset: Offset of the swap page we're writing to.
- * @hb: bio completion batch
- */
-
static int write_page(void *buf, sector_t offset, struct hib_bio_batch *hb)
{
gfp_t gfp = GFP_NOIO | __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_NORETRY;
@@ -526,10 +517,6 @@ static int swap_writer_finish(struct swap_map_handle *handle,
#define CMP_MIN_RD_PAGES 1024
#define CMP_MAX_RD_PAGES 8192

-/**
- * save_image - save the suspend image data
- */
-
static int save_image(struct swap_map_handle *handle,
struct snapshot_handle *snapshot,
unsigned int nr_to_write)
@@ -671,12 +658,6 @@ static int compress_threadfn(void *data)
return 0;
}

-/**
- * save_compressed_image - Save the suspend image data after compression.
- * @handle: Swap map handle to use for saving the image.
- * @snapshot: Image to read data from.
- * @nr_to_write: Number of pages to save.
- */
static int save_compressed_image(struct swap_map_handle *handle,
struct snapshot_handle *snapshot,
unsigned int nr_to_write)
@@ -904,13 +885,6 @@ static int save_compressed_image(struct swap_map_handle *handle,
return ret;
}

-/**
- * enough_swap - Make sure we have enough swap to save the image.
- *
- * Returns TRUE or FALSE after checking the total amount of swap
- * space available from the resume partition.
- */
-
static int enough_swap(unsigned int nr_pages)
{
unsigned int free_swap = count_swap_pages(root_swap, 1);
@@ -930,8 +904,9 @@ static int enough_swap(unsigned int nr_pages)
* them synced (in case something goes wrong) but we DO not want to mark
* filesystem clean: it is not. (And it does not matter, if we resume
* correctly, we'll mark system clean, anyway.)
+ *
+ * Return: 0 on success, negative error code on failure.
*/
-
int swsusp_write(unsigned int flags)
{
struct swap_map_handle handle;
@@ -1077,12 +1052,6 @@ static int swap_reader_finish(struct swap_map_handle *handle)
return 0;
}

-/**
- * load_image - load the image using the swap map handle
- * @handle and the snapshot handle @snapshot
- * (assume there are @nr_pages pages to load)
- */
-
static int load_image(struct swap_map_handle *handle,
struct snapshot_handle *snapshot,
unsigned int nr_to_read)
@@ -1190,12 +1159,6 @@ static int decompress_threadfn(void *data)
return 0;
}

-/**
- * load_compressed_image - Load compressed image data and decompress it.
- * @handle: Swap map handle to use for loading data.
- * @snapshot: Image to copy uncompressed data into.
- * @nr_to_read: Number of pages to load.
- */
static int load_compressed_image(struct swap_map_handle *handle,
struct snapshot_handle *snapshot,
unsigned int nr_to_read)
@@ -1529,8 +1492,9 @@ static int load_compressed_image(struct swap_map_handle *handle,
* swsusp_read - read the hibernation image.
* @flags_p: flags passed by the "frozen" kernel in the image header should
* be written into this memory location
+ *
+ * Return: 0 on success, negative error code on failure.
*/
-
int swsusp_read(unsigned int *flags_p)
{
int error;
@@ -1567,8 +1531,9 @@ static void *swsusp_holder;
/**
* swsusp_check - Open the resume device and check for the swsusp signature.
* @exclusive: Open the resume device exclusively.
+ *
+ * Return: 0 if a valid hibernation image is found, negative error code on failure.
*/
-
int swsusp_check(bool exclusive)
{
void *holder = exclusive ? &swsusp_holder : NULL;
@@ -1631,8 +1596,9 @@ void swsusp_close(void)

/**
* swsusp_unmark - Unmark swsusp signature in the resume device
+ *
+ * Return: 0 on success, negative error code on failure.
*/
-
#ifdef CONFIG_SUSPEND
int swsusp_unmark(void)
{
--
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