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From: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>
To: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
	Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] iov_iter: Add kernel-doc
Date: Mon,  6 Dec 2021 14:52:19 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20211206145220.1175209-3-willy@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211206145220.1175209-1-willy@infradead.org>

Document enum iter_type, copy_to_iter() and copy_from_iter()

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
---
 include/linux/uio.h | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 33 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/uio.h b/include/linux/uio.h
index 6350354f97e9..9fbce8c92545 100644
--- a/include/linux/uio.h
+++ b/include/linux/uio.h
@@ -17,6 +17,15 @@ struct kvec {
 	size_t iov_len;
 };
 
+/**
+ * enum iter_type - The type of memory referred to by the iterator.
+ * @ITER_IOVEC: An array of ranges of userspace memory.
+ * @ITER_KVEC: An array of ranges of kernel memory.
+ * @ITER_BVEC: An array of &struct bio_vec.
+ * @ITER_PIPE: A pipe.
+ * @ITER_XARRAY: A &struct xarray of pages.
+ * @ITER_DISCARD: No memory here; discard all writes.
+ */
 enum iter_type {
 	/* iter types */
 	ITER_IOVEC,
@@ -146,6 +155,18 @@ size_t _copy_to_iter(const void *addr, size_t bytes, struct iov_iter *i);
 size_t _copy_from_iter(void *addr, size_t bytes, struct iov_iter *i);
 size_t _copy_from_iter_nocache(void *addr, size_t bytes, struct iov_iter *i);
 
+/**
+ * copy_to_iter() - Copy from kernel memory to an iterator.
+ * @addr: Kernel memory address.
+ * @bytes: Number of bytes to copy.
+ * @i: Destination of copy.
+ *
+ * Copy @bytes from @addr to @i.  The region of memory pointed to by @i must
+ * not overlap the region pointed to by @addr.  @i may point to any kind
+ * of &enum iter_type memory.
+ *
+ * Return: Number of bytes successfully copied to the iterator.
+ */
 static __always_inline __must_check
 size_t copy_to_iter(const void *addr, size_t bytes, struct iov_iter *i)
 {
@@ -155,6 +176,18 @@ size_t copy_to_iter(const void *addr, size_t bytes, struct iov_iter *i)
 		return _copy_to_iter(addr, bytes, i);
 }
 
+/**
+ * copy_from_iter() - Copy from an iterator to kernel memory.
+ * @addr: Kernel memory address.
+ * @bytes: Number of bytes to copy.
+ * @i: Source of memory.
+ *
+ * Copy @bytes from @i to @addr.  The region of memory pointed to by @i must
+ * not overlap the region pointed to by @addr.  @i may point to any kind
+ * of &enum iter_type memory.
+ *
+ * Return: Number of bytes successfully copied from the iterator.
+ */
 static __always_inline __must_check
 size_t copy_from_iter(void *addr, size_t bytes, struct iov_iter *i)
 {
-- 
2.33.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-12-06 14:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-12-06 14:52 [PATCH 0/3] iov_iter documentation Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2021-12-06 14:52 ` [PATCH 1/3] iov_iter: Add skeleton documentation Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2021-12-06 14:55   ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-12-06 14:52 ` Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) [this message]
2021-12-06 14:54   ` [PATCH 2/3] iov_iter: Add kernel-doc Christoph Hellwig
2021-12-06 14:52 ` [PATCH 3/3] iov_iter: Move internal documentation Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2021-12-06 14:55   ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-12-06 15:00     ` Matthew Wilcox

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