* [PATCH 6.1 229/481] time: add kernel-doc in time.c
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@ 2026-03-23 13:43 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman @ 2026-03-23 13:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: stable
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman, patches, Randy Dunlap, John Stultz,
Thomas Gleixner, Stephen Boyd, Jonathan Corbet, linux-doc,
Sasha Levin
6.1-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
[ Upstream commit 67b3f564cb1e769ef8e45835129a4866152fcfdb ]
Add kernel-doc for all APIs that do not already have it.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230704052405.5089-3-rdunlap@infradead.org
Stable-dep-of: 755a648e78f1 ("time/jiffies: Mark jiffies_64_to_clock_t() notrace")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
kernel/time/time.c | 169 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
1 file changed, 158 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/time/time.c b/kernel/time/time.c
index a92c7f3277ad6..be42ace51255c 100644
--- a/kernel/time/time.c
+++ b/kernel/time/time.c
@@ -365,11 +365,14 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE1(adjtimex_time32, struct old_timex32 __user *, utp)
}
#endif
-/*
- * Convert jiffies to milliseconds and back.
+/**
+ * jiffies_to_msecs - Convert jiffies to milliseconds
+ * @j: jiffies value
*
* Avoid unnecessary multiplications/divisions in the
- * two most common HZ cases:
+ * two most common HZ cases.
+ *
+ * Return: milliseconds value
*/
unsigned int jiffies_to_msecs(const unsigned long j)
{
@@ -388,6 +391,12 @@ unsigned int jiffies_to_msecs(const unsigned long j)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(jiffies_to_msecs);
+/**
+ * jiffies_to_usecs - Convert jiffies to microseconds
+ * @j: jiffies value
+ *
+ * Return: microseconds value
+ */
unsigned int jiffies_to_usecs(const unsigned long j)
{
/*
@@ -408,8 +417,15 @@ unsigned int jiffies_to_usecs(const unsigned long j)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(jiffies_to_usecs);
-/*
+/**
* mktime64 - Converts date to seconds.
+ * @year0: year to convert
+ * @mon0: month to convert
+ * @day: day to convert
+ * @hour: hour to convert
+ * @min: minute to convert
+ * @sec: second to convert
+ *
* Converts Gregorian date to seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00.
* Assumes input in normal date format, i.e. 1980-12-31 23:59:59
* => year=1980, mon=12, day=31, hour=23, min=59, sec=59.
@@ -427,6 +443,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(jiffies_to_usecs);
*
* An encoding of midnight at the end of the day as 24:00:00 - ie. midnight
* tomorrow - (allowable under ISO 8601) is supported.
+ *
+ * Return: seconds since the epoch time for the given input date
*/
time64_t mktime64(const unsigned int year0, const unsigned int mon0,
const unsigned int day, const unsigned int hour,
@@ -471,8 +489,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(ns_to_kernel_old_timeval);
* Set seconds and nanoseconds field of a timespec variable and
* normalize to the timespec storage format
*
- * Note: The tv_nsec part is always in the range of
- * 0 <= tv_nsec < NSEC_PER_SEC
+ * Note: The tv_nsec part is always in the range of 0 <= tv_nsec < NSEC_PER_SEC.
* For negative values only the tv_sec field is negative !
*/
void set_normalized_timespec64(struct timespec64 *ts, time64_t sec, s64 nsec)
@@ -501,7 +518,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(set_normalized_timespec64);
* ns_to_timespec64 - Convert nanoseconds to timespec64
* @nsec: the nanoseconds value to be converted
*
- * Returns the timespec64 representation of the nsec parameter.
+ * Return: the timespec64 representation of the nsec parameter.
*/
struct timespec64 ns_to_timespec64(s64 nsec)
{
@@ -548,6 +565,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(ns_to_timespec64);
* runtime.
* the _msecs_to_jiffies helpers are the HZ dependent conversion
* routines found in include/linux/jiffies.h
+ *
+ * Return: jiffies value
*/
unsigned long __msecs_to_jiffies(const unsigned int m)
{
@@ -560,6 +579,12 @@ unsigned long __msecs_to_jiffies(const unsigned int m)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(__msecs_to_jiffies);
+/**
+ * __usecs_to_jiffies: - convert microseconds to jiffies
+ * @u: time in milliseconds
+ *
+ * Return: jiffies value
+ */
unsigned long __usecs_to_jiffies(const unsigned int u)
{
if (u > jiffies_to_usecs(MAX_JIFFY_OFFSET))
@@ -568,7 +593,10 @@ unsigned long __usecs_to_jiffies(const unsigned int u)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(__usecs_to_jiffies);
-/*
+/**
+ * timespec64_to_jiffies - convert a timespec64 value to jiffies
+ * @value: pointer to &struct timespec64
+ *
* The TICK_NSEC - 1 rounds up the value to the next resolution. Note
* that a remainder subtract here would not do the right thing as the
* resolution values don't fall on second boundaries. I.e. the line:
@@ -582,8 +610,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__usecs_to_jiffies);
*
* The >> (NSEC_JIFFIE_SC - SEC_JIFFIE_SC) converts the scaled nsec
* value to a scaled second value.
+ *
+ * Return: jiffies value
*/
-
unsigned long
timespec64_to_jiffies(const struct timespec64 *value)
{
@@ -601,6 +630,11 @@ timespec64_to_jiffies(const struct timespec64 *value)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(timespec64_to_jiffies);
+/**
+ * jiffies_to_timespec64 - convert jiffies value to &struct timespec64
+ * @jiffies: jiffies value
+ * @value: pointer to &struct timespec64
+ */
void
jiffies_to_timespec64(const unsigned long jiffies, struct timespec64 *value)
{
@@ -618,6 +652,13 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(jiffies_to_timespec64);
/*
* Convert jiffies/jiffies_64 to clock_t and back.
*/
+
+/**
+ * jiffies_to_clock_t - Convert jiffies to clock_t
+ * @x: jiffies value
+ *
+ * Return: jiffies converted to clock_t (CLOCKS_PER_SEC)
+ */
clock_t jiffies_to_clock_t(unsigned long x)
{
#if (TICK_NSEC % (NSEC_PER_SEC / USER_HZ)) == 0
@@ -632,6 +673,12 @@ clock_t jiffies_to_clock_t(unsigned long x)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(jiffies_to_clock_t);
+/**
+ * clock_t_to_jiffies - Convert clock_t to jiffies
+ * @x: clock_t value
+ *
+ * Return: clock_t value converted to jiffies
+ */
unsigned long clock_t_to_jiffies(unsigned long x)
{
#if (HZ % USER_HZ)==0
@@ -649,6 +696,12 @@ unsigned long clock_t_to_jiffies(unsigned long x)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(clock_t_to_jiffies);
+/**
+ * jiffies_64_to_clock_t - Convert jiffies_64 to clock_t
+ * @x: jiffies_64 value
+ *
+ * Return: jiffies_64 value converted to 64-bit "clock_t" (CLOCKS_PER_SEC)
+ */
u64 jiffies_64_to_clock_t(u64 x)
{
#if (TICK_NSEC % (NSEC_PER_SEC / USER_HZ)) == 0
@@ -671,6 +724,12 @@ u64 jiffies_64_to_clock_t(u64 x)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(jiffies_64_to_clock_t);
+/**
+ * nsec_to_clock_t - Convert nsec value to clock_t
+ * @x: nsec value
+ *
+ * Return: nsec value converted to 64-bit "clock_t" (CLOCKS_PER_SEC)
+ */
u64 nsec_to_clock_t(u64 x)
{
#if (NSEC_PER_SEC % USER_HZ) == 0
@@ -687,6 +746,12 @@ u64 nsec_to_clock_t(u64 x)
#endif
}
+/**
+ * jiffies64_to_nsecs - Convert jiffies64 to nanoseconds
+ * @j: jiffies64 value
+ *
+ * Return: nanoseconds value
+ */
u64 jiffies64_to_nsecs(u64 j)
{
#if !(NSEC_PER_SEC % HZ)
@@ -697,6 +762,12 @@ u64 jiffies64_to_nsecs(u64 j)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(jiffies64_to_nsecs);
+/**
+ * jiffies64_to_msecs - Convert jiffies64 to milliseconds
+ * @j: jiffies64 value
+ *
+ * Return: milliseconds value
+ */
u64 jiffies64_to_msecs(const u64 j)
{
#if HZ <= MSEC_PER_SEC && !(MSEC_PER_SEC % HZ)
@@ -719,6 +790,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(jiffies64_to_msecs);
* note:
* NSEC_PER_SEC = 10^9 = (5^9 * 2^9) = (1953125 * 512)
* ULLONG_MAX ns = 18446744073.709551615 secs = about 584 years
+ *
+ * Return: nsecs converted to jiffies64 value
*/
u64 nsecs_to_jiffies64(u64 n)
{
@@ -750,6 +823,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(nsecs_to_jiffies64);
* note:
* NSEC_PER_SEC = 10^9 = (5^9 * 2^9) = (1953125 * 512)
* ULLONG_MAX ns = 18446744073.709551615 secs = about 584 years
+ *
+ * Return: nsecs converted to jiffies value
*/
unsigned long nsecs_to_jiffies(u64 n)
{
@@ -757,10 +832,16 @@ unsigned long nsecs_to_jiffies(u64 n)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(nsecs_to_jiffies);
-/*
- * Add two timespec64 values and do a safety check for overflow.
+/**
+ * timespec64_add_safe - Add two timespec64 values and do a safety check
+ * for overflow.
+ * @lhs: first (left) timespec64 to add
+ * @rhs: second (right) timespec64 to add
+ *
* It's assumed that both values are valid (>= 0).
* And, each timespec64 is in normalized form.
+ *
+ * Return: sum of @lhs + @rhs
*/
struct timespec64 timespec64_add_safe(const struct timespec64 lhs,
const struct timespec64 rhs)
@@ -778,6 +859,15 @@ struct timespec64 timespec64_add_safe(const struct timespec64 lhs,
return res;
}
+/**
+ * get_timespec64 - get user's time value into kernel space
+ * @ts: destination &struct timespec64
+ * @uts: user's time value as &struct __kernel_timespec
+ *
+ * Handles compat or 32-bit modes.
+ *
+ * Return: %0 on success or negative errno on error
+ */
int get_timespec64(struct timespec64 *ts,
const struct __kernel_timespec __user *uts)
{
@@ -801,6 +891,14 @@ int get_timespec64(struct timespec64 *ts,
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(get_timespec64);
+/**
+ * put_timespec64 - convert timespec64 value to __kernel_timespec format and
+ * copy the latter to userspace
+ * @ts: input &struct timespec64
+ * @uts: user's &struct __kernel_timespec
+ *
+ * Return: %0 on success or negative errno on error
+ */
int put_timespec64(const struct timespec64 *ts,
struct __kernel_timespec __user *uts)
{
@@ -839,6 +937,15 @@ static int __put_old_timespec32(const struct timespec64 *ts64,
return copy_to_user(cts, &ts, sizeof(ts)) ? -EFAULT : 0;
}
+/**
+ * get_old_timespec32 - get user's old-format time value into kernel space
+ * @ts: destination &struct timespec64
+ * @uts: user's old-format time value (&struct old_timespec32)
+ *
+ * Handles X86_X32_ABI compatibility conversion.
+ *
+ * Return: %0 on success or negative errno on error
+ */
int get_old_timespec32(struct timespec64 *ts, const void __user *uts)
{
if (COMPAT_USE_64BIT_TIME)
@@ -848,6 +955,16 @@ int get_old_timespec32(struct timespec64 *ts, const void __user *uts)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(get_old_timespec32);
+/**
+ * put_old_timespec32 - convert timespec64 value to &struct old_timespec32 and
+ * copy the latter to userspace
+ * @ts: input &struct timespec64
+ * @uts: user's &struct old_timespec32
+ *
+ * Handles X86_X32_ABI compatibility conversion.
+ *
+ * Return: %0 on success or negative errno on error
+ */
int put_old_timespec32(const struct timespec64 *ts, void __user *uts)
{
if (COMPAT_USE_64BIT_TIME)
@@ -857,6 +974,13 @@ int put_old_timespec32(const struct timespec64 *ts, void __user *uts)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(put_old_timespec32);
+/**
+ * get_itimerspec64 - get user's &struct __kernel_itimerspec into kernel space
+ * @it: destination &struct itimerspec64
+ * @uit: user's &struct __kernel_itimerspec
+ *
+ * Return: %0 on success or negative errno on error
+ */
int get_itimerspec64(struct itimerspec64 *it,
const struct __kernel_itimerspec __user *uit)
{
@@ -872,6 +996,14 @@ int get_itimerspec64(struct itimerspec64 *it,
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(get_itimerspec64);
+/**
+ * put_itimerspec64 - convert &struct itimerspec64 to __kernel_itimerspec format
+ * and copy the latter to userspace
+ * @it: input &struct itimerspec64
+ * @uit: user's &struct __kernel_itimerspec
+ *
+ * Return: %0 on success or negative errno on error
+ */
int put_itimerspec64(const struct itimerspec64 *it,
struct __kernel_itimerspec __user *uit)
{
@@ -887,6 +1019,13 @@ int put_itimerspec64(const struct itimerspec64 *it,
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(put_itimerspec64);
+/**
+ * get_old_itimerspec32 - get user's &struct old_itimerspec32 into kernel space
+ * @its: destination &struct itimerspec64
+ * @uits: user's &struct old_itimerspec32
+ *
+ * Return: %0 on success or negative errno on error
+ */
int get_old_itimerspec32(struct itimerspec64 *its,
const struct old_itimerspec32 __user *uits)
{
@@ -898,6 +1037,14 @@ int get_old_itimerspec32(struct itimerspec64 *its,
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(get_old_itimerspec32);
+/**
+ * put_old_itimerspec32 - convert &struct itimerspec64 to &struct
+ * old_itimerspec32 and copy the latter to userspace
+ * @its: input &struct itimerspec64
+ * @uits: user's &struct old_itimerspec32
+ *
+ * Return: %0 on success or negative errno on error
+ */
int put_old_itimerspec32(const struct itimerspec64 *its,
struct old_itimerspec32 __user *uits)
{
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