Re: [PATCH] make genpool allocator adhere to kernel-doc standards

[Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com>]

The exported kernel interfaces of genpool allocator need to adhere to
the requirements of kernel-doc.

Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>

---

Linus,

This patch is dependent on another patch lib/genalloc.c to be applied first,
the patch with  Subject: Re: [PATCH] add gen_pool_destroy()

Thanks,
Dean


 genalloc.c |   39 +++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)


Index: linux-2.6/lib/genalloc.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/lib/genalloc.c	2006-09-28 10:54:41.330794389 -0500
+++ linux-2.6/lib/genalloc.c	2006-09-28 11:02:54.327472348 -0500
@@ -14,11 +14,13 @@
 #include <linux/genalloc.h>
 
 
-/*
- * Create a new special memory pool.
- *
+/**
+ * gen_pool_create - create a new special memory pool
  * @min_alloc_order: log base 2 of number of bytes each bitmap bit represents
  * @nid: node id of the node the pool structure should be allocated on, or -1
+ *
+ * Create a new special memory pool that can be used to manage special purpose
+ * memory not managed by the regular kmalloc/kfree interface.
  */
 struct gen_pool *gen_pool_create(int min_alloc_order, int nid)
 {
@@ -35,14 +37,15 @@
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(gen_pool_create);
 
 
-/*
- * Add a new chunk of memory to the specified pool.
- *
+/**
+ * gen_pool_add - add a new chunk of special memory to the pool
  * @pool: pool to add new memory chunk to
  * @addr: starting address of memory chunk to add to pool
  * @size: size in bytes of the memory chunk to add to pool
  * @nid: node id of the node the chunk structure and bitmap should be
  *       allocated on, or -1
+ *
+ * Add a new chunk of special memory to the specified pool.
  */
 int gen_pool_add(struct gen_pool *pool, unsigned long addr, size_t size,
 		 int nid)
@@ -70,10 +73,12 @@
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(gen_pool_add);
 
 
-/*
- * Destroy a memory pool. Verifies that there are no outstanding allocations.
- *
+/**
+ * gen_pool_destroy - destroy a special memory pool
  * @pool: pool to destroy
+ *
+ * Destroy the specified special memory pool. Verifies that there are no
+ * outstanding allocations.
  */
 void gen_pool_destroy(struct gen_pool *pool)
 {
@@ -100,12 +105,13 @@
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(gen_pool_destroy);
 
 
-/*
- * Allocate the requested number of bytes from the specified pool.
- * Uses a first-fit algorithm.
- *
+/**
+ * gen_pool_alloc - allocate special memory from the pool
  * @pool: pool to allocate from
  * @size: number of bytes to allocate from the pool
+ *
+ * Allocate the requested number of bytes from the specified pool.
+ * Uses a first-fit algorithm.
  */
 unsigned long gen_pool_alloc(struct gen_pool *pool, size_t size)
 {
@@ -158,12 +164,13 @@
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(gen_pool_alloc);
 
 
-/*
- * Free the specified memory back to the specified pool.
- *
+/**
+ * gen_pool_free - free allocated special memory back to the pool
  * @pool: pool to free to
  * @addr: starting address of memory to free back to pool
  * @size: size in bytes of memory to free
+ *
+ * Free previously allocated special memory back to the specified pool.
  */
 void gen_pool_free(struct gen_pool *pool, unsigned long addr, size_t size)
 {