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From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>, linux-mm@kvack.org, aarcange@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [patch 1/2 v2]compaction: abort compaction loop if lock is contended or run too long
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 12:08:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120912110837.GN11266@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120911163455.bb249a3c.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 04:34:55PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Alas, try_to_compact_pages()'s kerneldoc altogether forgets to describe
> this argument.  Mel's
> mm-compaction-capture-a-suitable-high-order-page-immediately-when-it-is-made-available.patch
> adds a `pages' arg and forgets to document that as well.
> 

*slaps*

This covers both of them.

---8<---
mm: compaction: Update try_to_compact_pages kernel doc comment

Parameters were added without documentation, tut tut.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
---
 mm/compaction.c |    2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mm/compaction.c b/mm/compaction.c
index 364e12f..614f18b 100644
--- a/mm/compaction.c
+++ b/mm/compaction.c
@@ -919,6 +919,8 @@ int sysctl_extfrag_threshold = 500;
  * @gfp_mask: The GFP mask of the current allocation
  * @nodemask: The allowed nodes to allocate from
  * @sync: Whether migration is synchronous or not
+ * @contended: Return value that is true if compaction was aborted due to lock contention
+ * @page: Optionally capture a free page of the requested order during compaction
  *
  * This is the main entry point for direct page compaction.
  */

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2012-09-12 11:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-10  1:18 [patch 1/2 v2]compaction: abort compaction loop if lock is contended or run too long Shaohua Li
2012-09-10  8:11 ` Mel Gorman
2012-09-11  1:45 ` Minchan Kim
2012-09-11  8:29   ` Shaohua Li
2012-09-11  8:40     ` Minchan Kim
2012-09-11 23:34 ` Andrew Morton
2012-09-12  0:48   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2012-09-12 21:20     ` Andrew Morton
2012-09-12 23:48       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2012-09-13  0:47         ` Minchan Kim
2012-09-13  2:49           ` Shaohua Li
2012-09-13  9:38           ` Mel Gorman
2012-09-13 10:13             ` Shaohua Li
2012-09-13 16:04             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2012-09-13 16:31               ` Mel Gorman
2012-09-13 17:11                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2012-09-13 10:03       ` Mel Gorman
2012-09-12 11:08   ` Mel Gorman [this message]

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