From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>,
Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>,
Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>,
Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] mm: document memalloc_noreclaim_save() and memalloc_pin_save()
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2024 10:04:16 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ae2d03441a1b4ab62c9982e006bb21f6006ad713.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240215155557.93b23f4a69c6062e7878ed14@linux-foundation.org>
On Thu, 2024-02-15 at 15:55 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> + * This function marks the beginning of the __GFP_MEMALLOC allocation scope.
> > ...
> >
> > + * This function marks the beginning of the ~__GFP_MOVABLE allocation scope.
>
> pet peeves. We can assume that the reader knows that this is a
> function! Perhaps we should teach checkpatch to whine.
>
> Like "the function foo" and "the function foo()" in changelogs.
> "foo()" is enough!
IMO: checkpatch should not be a grammar checker.
It's stupid enough as is let alone trying to get
it to analyze sentence structure.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-02-16 18:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-02-15 9:58 Vlastimil Babka
2024-02-15 23:55 ` Andrew Morton
2024-02-16 18:04 ` Joe Perches [this message]
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