linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] KVM: x86/mmu: Clean up function comments for dirty logging APIs

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Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2024 16:33:24 -0700
From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
To: David Matlack <dmatlack@...gle.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>, kvm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: x86/mmu: Clean up function comments for dirty
 logging APIs

On Thu, Jun 13, 2024, David Matlack wrote:
> On 2024-06-11 02:58 PM, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> > I don't actually care too much about the comment itself, I really just want to
> > get rid of the annoying warnings (I was *very* tempted to just delete the extra
> > asterisk), so if anyone has any opinion whatsoever...
> 
> I vote to drop it and document the nuance around PML in the function

As in, drop the function comment entirely?  I'm definitely a-ok with that too.

> > @@ -1373,14 +1354,26 @@ static void kvm_mmu_clear_dirty_pt_masked(struct kvm *kvm,
> >  }
> >  
> >  /**
> > - * kvm_arch_mmu_enable_log_dirty_pt_masked - enable dirty logging for selected
> > - * PT level pages.
> > + * kvm_arch_mmu_enable_log_dirty_pt_masked - (Re)Enable dirty logging for a set
> > + * of GFNs
> >   *
> > - * It calls kvm_mmu_write_protect_pt_masked to write protect selected pages to
> > - * enable dirty logging for them.
> > + * @kvm: kvm instance
> > + * @slot: slot to containing the gfns to dirty log
> > + * @gfn_offset: start of the BITS_PER_LONG pages we care about
> 
> Someone once told me to avoid using "we" in comments :)

Darn copy+paste.