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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: bfields@fieldses.org
Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] nfsd: start documenting some XDR handling functions
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 00:24:11 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131120082411.GA30072@infradead.org> (raw)

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c b/fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c
index fc10dd7..9423522 100644
--- a/fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c
+++ b/fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c
@@ -193,6 +193,15 @@ static int zero_clientid(clientid_t *clid)
 	return (clid->cl_boot == 0) && (clid->cl_id == 0);
 }
 
+/**
+ * defer_free - mark an allocation as deferred freed
+ * @argp: NFSv4 compound argument structure to be freed with
+ * @release: release callback to free @p, typically kfree()
+ * @p: pointer to be freed
+ *
+ * Marks @p to be freed when processing the compound operation
+ * described in @argp finishes.
+ */
 static int
 defer_free(struct nfsd4_compoundargs *argp,
 		void (*release)(const void *), void *p)
@@ -209,6 +218,16 @@ defer_free(struct nfsd4_compoundargs *argp,
 	return 0;
 }
 
+/**
+ * savemem - duplicate a chunk of memory for later processing
+ * @argp: NFSv4 compound argument structure to be freed with
+ * @p: pointer to be duplicated
+ * @nbytes: length to be duplicated
+ *
+ * Returns a pointer to a copy of @nbytes bytes of memory at @p
+ * that are preserved until processing of the NFSv4 compound
+ * operation described by @argp finishes.
+ */
 static char *savemem(struct nfsd4_compoundargs *argp, __be32 *p, int nbytes)
 {
 	if (p == argp->tmp) {

             reply	other threads:[~2013-11-20  8:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-20  8:24 Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2013-11-21 16:46 ` [PATCH] nfsd: start documenting some XDR handling functions J. Bruce Fields

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