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Message-ID: <20231201202042.1d352825@kernel.org>
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2023 20:20:42 -0800
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Cc: Coco Li <lixiaoyan@...gle.com>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Neal
 Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>, Mubashir Adnan Qureshi
 <mubashirq@...gle.com>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, Andrew Lunn
 <andrew@...n.ch>, David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>, Daniel Borkmann
 <daniel@...earbox.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org, Chao Wu
 <wwchao@...gle.com>, Wei Wang <weiwan@...gle.com>, Pradeep Nemavat
 <pnemavat@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 net-next 2/5] cache: enforce cache groups

On Wed, 29 Nov 2023 07:27:53 +0000 Coco Li wrote:
> diff --git a/scripts/kernel-doc b/scripts/kernel-doc
> index 08a3e603db192..0a890fe4d22b1 100755
> --- a/scripts/kernel-doc
> +++ b/scripts/kernel-doc
> @@ -1592,6 +1592,11 @@ sub push_parameter($$$$$) {
>  		$parameterdescs{$param} = "anonymous\n";
>  		$anon_struct_union = 1;
>  	}
> +	elsif ($param =~ "__cacheline_group" )
> +	# handle cache group enforcing variables: they do not need be described in header files
> +	{
> +		return; # ignore __cacheline_group_begin and __cacheline_group_end
> +	}
>  
>  	# warn if parameter has no description
>  	# (but ignore ones starting with # as these are not parameters

Hi Jon, would you be okay with this chunk going into net-next?