linux-kernel - [PATCH 3/8] tick/sched: Add function description for tick_nohz_next

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Message-Id: <20240123164702.55612-4-anna-maria@linutronix.de>
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2024 17:46:57 +0100
From: Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@...utronix.de>
To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	John Stultz <jstultz@...gle.com>,
	Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...nel.org>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
	Clemens Ladisch <clemens@...isch.de>,
	linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
	Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@...utronix.de>
Subject: [PATCH 3/8] tick/sched: Add function description for tick_nohz_next_event()

The return value of tick_nohz_next_event() is not obvious at the first
glance. Add a kernel-doc compatible function description which also covers
return values.

Signed-off-by: Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@...utronix.de>
---
 kernel/time/tick-sched.c | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
index d2501673028d..e1d80f462551 100644
--- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
+++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
@@ -799,6 +799,16 @@ static inline bool local_timer_softirq_pending(void)
 	return local_softirq_pending() & BIT(TIMER_SOFTIRQ);
 }
 
+/**
+ * tick_nohz_next_event() - return the clock monotonic based next event
+ * @ts:		pointer to tick_sched struct
+ * @cpu:	CPU number
+ *
+ * Return:
+ * *%0		- When the next event is a maximum of TICK_NSEC in the future
+ *		  and the tick is not stopped yet
+ * *%next_event	- Next event based on clock monotonic
+ */
 static ktime_t tick_nohz_next_event(struct tick_sched *ts, int cpu)
 {
 	u64 basemono, next_tick, delta, expires;
-- 
2.39.2