From: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>
Cc: Linux Doc Mailing List <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
"Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>,
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 15/22] mm: document maple tree pointer at unmap_vmas() at memory.c
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2022 00:25:24 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220629002517.7xzweisyydh2mseb@revolver> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d2690118414c5458c448348cc94f831d8e8444ce.1656409369.git.mchehab@kernel.org>
* Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org> [220628 05:46]:
> A maple tree pointer parameter was added at unmap_vmas() without
> description:
>
> mm/memory.c:1729: warning: Function parameter or member 'mt' not described in 'unmap_vmas'
>
> Document it it.
>
> Fixes: 5966e5c968b2 ("mm: remove the vma linked list")
> Fixes: f8acc5e9581e ("Maple Tree: add new data structure")
> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>
> ---
>
> To avoid mailbombing on a large number of people, only mailing lists were C/C on the cover.
> See [PATCH 00/22] at: https://lore.kernel.org/all/cover.1656409369.git.mchehab@kernel.org/
>
> mm/memory.c | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
> index e3d3596068f2..771b61444507 100644
> --- a/mm/memory.c
> +++ b/mm/memory.c
> @@ -1707,6 +1707,8 @@ static void unmap_single_vma(struct mmu_gather *tlb,
> /**
> * unmap_vmas - unmap a range of memory covered by a list of vma's
> * @tlb: address of the caller's struct mmu_gather
> + * @mt: maple tree pointer. A maple tree is a RCU-safe range based B-tree
> + * designed to use modern processor cache efficiently
Thanks, but I think that's a little too descriptive of type and a little
lacking of description of what this tree actually holds.
Maybe something like:
@mt: The maple tree pointer for the VMAs?
> * @vma: the starting vma
> * @start_addr: virtual address at which to start unmapping
> * @end_addr: virtual address at which to end unmapping
> --
> 2.36.1
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-06-29 0:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-06-28 9:46 [PATCH 00/22] Fix kernel-doc warnings at linux-next Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2022-06-28 9:46 ` [PATCH 15/22] mm: document maple tree pointer at unmap_vmas() at memory.c Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2022-06-29 0:25 ` Liam Howlett [this message]
2022-06-28 13:10 ` (subset) [PATCH 00/22] Fix kernel-doc warnings at linux-next Mark Brown
2022-06-29 3:23 ` Bagas Sanjaya
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