linux-kernel - [PATCH] Immediate Values - Architecture Independent Code

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Date:	Sun, 15 Jul 2007 19:40:19 -0400
From:	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca>
To:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Subject: [PATCH] Immediate Values - Architecture Independent Code - kerneldoc for implementation

Immediate Values - Architecture Independent Code - kerneldoc for implementation

Add kerneldoc to Immediate Values API.
It applies after
"Immediate Values - Architecture Independent Code - kerneldoc"

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca>
CC: hch@...radead.org
---
 kernel/immediate.c |   24 +++++++++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6-lttng/kernel/immediate.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6-lttng.orig/kernel/immediate.c	2007-07-15 19:04:08.000000000 -0400
+++ linux-2.6-lttng/kernel/immediate.c	2007-07-15 19:07:14.000000000 -0400
@@ -54,7 +54,10 @@ static inline void _immediate_update_ran
 }
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_MODULES
-/*
+/**
+ * module_immediate_setup - Update immediate values in a module
+ * @mod: pointer to the struct module
+ *
  * Setup the immediate according to the variable upon which it depends.  Called
  * by load_module with module_mutex held. This mutex protects against concurrent
  * modifications to modules'immediates. Therefore, since
@@ -89,6 +92,12 @@ static inline void immediate_update_modu
 static inline void immediate_update_modules(int lock) { }
 #endif
 
+/**
+ * immediate_update - update all immediate values in the kernel
+ * @lock: should a module_mutex be taken ?
+ *
+ * Iterate on the kernel core and modules to update the immediate values.
+ */
 void immediate_update(int lock)
 {
 	/* Core kernel immediates */
@@ -98,11 +107,7 @@ void immediate_update(int lock)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(immediate_update);
 
-/*
- * Update the immediate values to the state of the variables they refer to. It
- * is done before SMP is active, at the very beginning of start_kernel().
- */
-void __init immediate_update_early_range(const struct __immediate *begin,
+static void __init immediate_update_early_range(const struct __immediate *begin,
 		const struct __immediate *end)
 {
 	const struct __immediate *iter;
@@ -111,7 +116,12 @@ void __init immediate_update_early_range
 		arch_immediate_update_early(iter);
 }
 
-
+/**
+ * immediate_update_early - Update immediate values at boot time
+ *
+ * Update the immediate values to the state of the variables they refer to. It
+ * is done before SMP is active, at the very beginning of start_kernel().
+ */
 void __init immediate_update_early(void)
 {
 	immediate_update_early_range(__start___immediate, __stop___immediate);
-- 
Mathieu Desnoyers
Computer Engineering Ph.D. Student, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal
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