linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 00/11] docs/mm: add boot time memory management docs

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Message-ID: <20180702113255.1f7504e2@lwn.net>
Date:   Mon, 2 Jul 2018 11:32:55 -0600
From:   Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To:     Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:     Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
        linux-doc <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/11] docs/mm: add boot time memory management docs

On Sat, 30 Jun 2018 17:54:55 +0300
Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> Both bootmem and memblock have pretty good documentation coverage. With
> some fixups and additions we get a nice overall description.
> 
> v2 changes:
> * address Randy's comments
> 
> Mike Rapoport (11):
>   mm/bootmem: drop duplicated kernel-doc comments
>   docs/mm: nobootmem: fixup kernel-doc comments
>   docs/mm: bootmem: fix kernel-doc warnings
>   docs/mm: bootmem: add kernel-doc description of 'struct bootmem_data'
>   docs/mm: bootmem: add overview documentation
>   mm/memblock: add a name for memblock flags enumeration
>   docs/mm: memblock: update kernel-doc comments
>   docs/mm: memblock: add kernel-doc comments for memblock_add[_node]
>   docs/mm: memblock: add kernel-doc description for memblock types
>   docs/mm: memblock: add overview documentation
>   docs/mm: add description of boot time memory management

So this seems like good stuff overall.  It digs pretty deeply into the mm
code, though, so I'm a little reluctant to apply it without an ack from an
mm developer.  Alternatively, I'm happy to step back if Andrew wants to
pick the set up.

Thanks,

jon