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Date:   Tue, 13 Oct 2020 22:46:08 +0200
From:   Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>
To:     "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>
Cc:     Linux Doc Mailing List <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        "Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)" <urezki@...il.com>,
        Joel Fernandes <joel@...lfernandes.org>,
        Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>,
        Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@...il.com>,
        Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, rcu@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 70/80] rcu/tree: docs: document bkvcache new members
 at struct kfree_rcu_cpu

Em Tue, 13 Oct 2020 09:34:04 -0700
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org> escreveu:

> On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 01:54:25PM +0200, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> > Changeset 53c72b590b3a ("rcu/tree: cache specified number of objects")
> > added new members for struct kfree_rcu_cpu, but didn't add the
> > corresponding at the kernel-doc markup, as repoted when doing
> > "make htmldocs":
> > 	./kernel/rcu/tree.c:3113: warning: Function parameter or member 'bkvcache' not described in 'kfree_rcu_cpu'
> > 	./kernel/rcu/tree.c:3113: warning: Function parameter or member 'nr_bkv_objs' not described in 'kfree_rcu_cpu'
> > 
> > So, move the description for bkvcache to kernel-doc, and add a
> > description for nr_bkv_objs.
> > 
> > Fixes: 53c72b590b3a ("rcu/tree: cache specified number of objects")
> > Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>  
> 
> Queued for review and testing, likely target v5.11.

Hi Paul,

I would prefer if we could get those on 5.10, if possible.
We're aiming to have 5.10 free of docs warnings ;-)

If you prefer, I can send those patches to Linus with your
ack.

Regards,
Mauro

> 
> 							Thanx, Paul
> 
> > ---
> >  kernel/rcu/tree.c | 14 ++++++--------
> >  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree.c b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
> > index f78ee759af9c..03c54c3478b7 100644
> > --- a/kernel/rcu/tree.c
> > +++ b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
> > @@ -3022,6 +3022,12 @@ struct kfree_rcu_cpu_work {
> >   * @monitor_todo: Tracks whether a @monitor_work delayed work is pending
> >   * @initialized: The @rcu_work fields have been initialized
> >   * @count: Number of objects for which GP not started
> > + * @bkvcache:
> > + *	A simple cache list that contains objects for reuse purpose.
> > + *	In order to save some per-cpu space the list is singular.
> > + *	Even though it is lockless an access has to be protected by the
> > + *	per-cpu lock.
> > + * @nr_bkv_objs: number of allocated objects at @bkvcache.
> >   *
> >   * This is a per-CPU structure.  The reason that it is not included in
> >   * the rcu_data structure is to permit this code to be extracted from
> > @@ -3037,14 +3043,6 @@ struct kfree_rcu_cpu {
> >  	bool monitor_todo;
> >  	bool initialized;
> >  	int count;
> > -
> > -	/*
> > -	 * A simple cache list that contains objects for
> > -	 * reuse purpose. In order to save some per-cpu
> > -	 * space the list is singular. Even though it is
> > -	 * lockless an access has to be protected by the
> > -	 * per-cpu lock.
> > -	 */
> >  	struct llist_head bkvcache;
> >  	int nr_bkv_objs;
> >  };
> > -- 
> > 2.26.2
> >   



Thanks,
Mauro