linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 02/17] mm: mmu

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Message-ID: <1300309701.2250.89.camel@laptop>
Date:	Wed, 16 Mar 2011 22:08:21 +0100
From:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
To:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
Cc:	Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>, Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@...cali.co.uk>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...nel.dk>,
	Paul McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Yanmin Zhang <yanmin_zhang@...ux.intel.com>,
	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
	Russell King <rmk@....linux.org.uk>,
	Paul Mundt <lethal@...ux-sh.org>,
	Jeff Dike <jdike@...toit.com>, Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/17] mm: mmu_gather rework

On Wed, 2011-03-16 at 21:15 +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 19:55, Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2011-03-10 at 15:50 +0000, Mel Gorman wrote:
> >
> >> > +static inline void
> >> > +tlb_gather_mmu(struct mmu_gather *tlb, struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned int full_mm_flush)
> >> >  {
> >>
> >> checkpatch will bitch about line length.
> >
> > I did a s/full_mm_flush/fullmm/ which puts the line length at 81. At
> > which point I'll ignore it ;-)
> 
> But what does "fullmm" mean here? Shouldn't that be documented.
> BTW, the function no longer returns a struct, but void, so the documentation
> should be updated for sure.

You're talking about the comment right? I'll update that. I was also
considering writing Documentation/mmugather.txt, but that's a slightly
bigger undertaking.

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