[PATCH] procfs: fix kernel-doc param warnings

From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Mon Oct 22 2007 - 00:00:35 EST


From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx>

Fix mnt_flush_task() misplaced kernel-doc.
Fix typos in some of the doc text.

Warning(linux-2.6.23-git17//fs/proc/base.c:2280): No description found for parameter 'mnt'
Warning(linux-2.6.23-git17//fs/proc/base.c:2280): No description found for parameter 'pid'
Warning(linux-2.6.23-git17//fs/proc/base.c:2280): No description found for parameter 'tgid'

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/proc/base.c | 46 ++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------
1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)

--- linux-2.6.23-git17.orig/fs/proc/base.c
+++ linux-2.6.23-git17/fs/proc/base.c
@@ -2255,27 +2255,6 @@ static const struct inode_operations pro
.setattr = proc_setattr,
};

-/**
- * proc_flush_task - Remove dcache entries for @task from the /proc dcache.
- *
- * @task: task that should be flushed.
- *
- * Looks in the dcache for
- * /proc/@pid
- * /proc/@tgid/task/@pid
- * if either directory is present flushes it and all of it'ts children
- * from the dcache.
- *
- * It is safe and reasonable to cache /proc entries for a task until
- * that task exits. After that they just clog up the dcache with
- * useless entries, possibly causing useful dcache entries to be
- * flushed instead. This routine is proved to flush those useless
- * dcache entries at process exit time.
- *
- * NOTE: This routine is just an optimization so it does not guarantee
- * that no dcache entries will exist at process exit time it
- * just makes it very unlikely that any will persist.
- */
static void proc_flush_task_mnt(struct vfsmount *mnt, pid_t pid, pid_t tgid)
{
struct dentry *dentry, *leader, *dir;
@@ -2322,10 +2301,29 @@ out:
return;
}

-/*
- * when flushing dentries from proc one need to flush them from global
+/**
+ * proc_flush_task - Remove dcache entries for @task from the /proc dcache.
+ * @task: task that should be flushed.
+ *
+ * When flushing dentries from proc, one needs to flush them from global
* proc (proc_mnt) and from all the namespaces' procs this task was seen
- * in. this call is supposed to make all this job.
+ * in. This call is supposed to do all of this job.
+ *
+ * Looks in the dcache for
+ * /proc/@pid
+ * /proc/@tgid/task/@pid
+ * if either directory is present flushes it and all of it'ts children
+ * from the dcache.
+ *
+ * It is safe and reasonable to cache /proc entries for a task until
+ * that task exits. After that they just clog up the dcache with
+ * useless entries, possibly causing useful dcache entries to be
+ * flushed instead. This routine is proved to flush those useless
+ * dcache entries at process exit time.
+ *
+ * NOTE: This routine is just an optimization so it does not guarantee
+ * that no dcache entries will exist at process exit time it
+ * just makes it very unlikely that any will persist.
*/

void proc_flush_task(struct task_struct *task)
---
~Randy
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