linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 0/4] Extend and reorganize Highmem's documentation

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Date:   Sat, 30 Apr 2022 22:11:43 -0700
From:   ira.weiny@...el.com
To:     "Fabio M. De Francesco" <fmdefrancesco@...il.com>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@...radead.org>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        Peter Collingbourne <pcc@...gle.com>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        outreachy@...ts.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/4] Extend and reorganize Highmem's documentation

On Thu, Apr 28, 2022 at 11:24:51PM +0200, Fabio M. De Francesco wrote:
> This series has the purpose to extend and reorganize Highmem's
> documentation.
> 
> This is a work in progress because some information should still be moved
> from highmem.rst to highmem.h and highmem-internal.h. Specifically I'm
> talking about moving the "how to" information to the relevant headers, as
> it as been suggested by Ira Weiny (Intel).
> 
> Also, this is a work in progress because some kdocs in highmem.h and
> highmem-internal.h should be improved.
> 
> However, I think (and hope that my thoughts are also shared by Maintainers
> and Reviewers) that this series constitues a sensible step forward
> improving Highmem's documentation, despite some important issues are not
> yet addressed.

For the series:

Reviewed-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@...el.com>

> 
> Changes from v1 to v2:
> 
>         1/4 - Fix typos (Mike Rapoport); re-write the description of @page
>               because the original was wrong (Ira Weiny); add Ira's and
>               Mike's tags in the commit message.
>         2/4 - Add Ira's and Mike's tags in the commit message.
>         3/4 - Rework the subject to better summarize what this patch
>               changes; merge the section which was removed from highmem.rst
>               with the kdocs of highmem.h (suggested by Ira Weiny); add
>               Ira's tag in the commit message.
>         4/4 - Reformulate a sentence that was incomprehensible due to my
>               own mistakes in copying and pasting the text of another
>               paragraph (problem noted by Ira Weiny); refer to the kdocs
>               of kmap_local_page () to show how nested mappings should be
>               handled; fix grammar error; add Ira's tag in the commit
>               message.
> 
> Changes from v2 to v3:
> 
>         1/4 - Add a deprecation notice to kunmap_atomic() for consistency
>               with the same notice in kmap_atomic() (Sebastian Andrzej
>               Siewior); shorten subject and extend commit message.
>         2/4 - No changes.
>         3/4 - No changes.
>         4/4 - Correct a technical inaccuracy about preemption disabling /
>               re-enabling in kmap_atomic() / kunmap_atomic() (Sebastian
>               Andrzej Siewior).
> 
> Changes from v3 to v4:
> 
> 	1/4 - Correct some techinal inaccuracies about the side effects
> 	      of calling kmap_atomic() and kmap_local_page() (Sebastian
> 	      Andrzej Siewior); drop "Acked-by:" and "Reviewed-by:" tags
> 	      because relevant parts of this patch have changed.
> 	2/4 - No changes.
> 	3/4 - No changes.
> 	4/4 - Shorten a couple of paragraphs by removing redundant
> 	      information (Sebastian Andrzej Siewior).
> 
> Fabio M. De Francesco (4):
>   mm/highmem: Fix kernel-doc warnings in highmem*.h
>   Documentation/vm: Include kdocs from highmem*.h into highmem.rst
>   Documentation/vm: Move "Using kmap-atomic" from highmem.rst to
>     highmem.h
>   Documentation/vm: Rework "Temporary Virtual Mappings" section
> 
>  Documentation/vm/highmem.rst     | 100 ++++++++++++++++++-------------
>  include/linux/highmem-internal.h |  18 +++++-
>  include/linux/highmem.h          |  51 ++++++++++++----
>  3 files changed, 113 insertions(+), 56 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 2.34.1
>