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From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: "Fabio M. De Francesco" <fmdefrancesco@gmail.com>
Cc: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
	Peter Collingbourne <pcc@google.com>,
	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
	Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>,
	Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, outreachy@lists.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] mm/highmem: Fix kernel-doc warnings in highmem*.h
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2022 13:44:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Yl6unkluUEeRZBbB@casper.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220418175638.30018-1-fmdefrancesco@gmail.com>

On Mon, Apr 18, 2022 at 07:56:38PM +0200, Fabio M. De Francesco wrote:
> +/**
> + * kunmap_atomic - Unmap the virtual address mapped by kmap_atomic()
> + * @__addr:       Virtual address to be unmapped
> + *
> + * Counterpart to kmap_atomic().

I don't think this is a terribly useful paragraph?

> + * Effectively a wrapper around kunmap_local() which additionally undoes
> + * the side effects of kmap_atomic(), i.e. reenabling pagefaults and
> + * preemption. Prevent people trying to call kunmap_atomic() as if it
> + * were kunmap() because kunmap_atomic() should get the return value of
> + * kmap_atomic(), not its argument which is a pointer to struct page.

I'd rather this were useful advice to the caller than documentation of
how it works.  How about:

 * Unmap an address previously mapped by kmap_atomic().  Mappings
 * should be unmapped in the reverse order that they were mapped.
 * See kmap_local_page() for details.  @__addr can be any address within
 * the mapped page, so there is no need to subtract any offset that has
 * been added.  In contrast to kunmap(), this function takes the address
 * returned from kmap_atomic(), not the page passed to kmap_atomic().
 * The compiler will warn you if you pass the page.


  reply	other threads:[~2022-04-19 12:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-04-18 17:56 [PATCH v2] mm/highmem: Fix kernel-doc warnings in highmem*.h Fabio M. De Francesco
2022-04-19 12:44 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2022-04-19 13:25   ` Fabio M. De Francesco
2022-04-19 14:52     ` Ira Weiny
2022-04-19 15:09       ` Fabio M. De Francesco
2022-04-19 17:13         ` Fabio M. De Francesco
2022-04-21 17:50 ` Fabio M. De Francesco

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