Re: [PATCH 1/3] arm64: mmu: update paging_init comments

From: Mark Rutland
Date: Wed Feb 13 2019 - 06:19:00 EST


On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 09:37:24AM +0000, Peng Fan wrote:
> The comments has not been changed since the function introduced, but the
> function has been changed dramatically, so update the comments to
> reflect the code.
>
> Signed-off-by: Peng Fan <peng.fan@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
> index d6b6f1b169bb..065202da3ad2 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
> @@ -655,8 +655,8 @@ static void __init map_kernel(pgd_t *pgdp)
> }
>
> /*
> - * paging_init() sets up the page tables, initialises the zone memory
> - * maps and sets up the zero page.
> + * paging_init() sets up the page tables, switch ttbr1 from init_pg_dir
> + * to swapper_pg_dir, free init_pg_dir memblock and permit memblock resizing.
> */

I think that it would be better to remove the comment entirely. This
doesn't explain the intent, or rationale, and all this information is
obvious from a straight-line reading of the code.

If you remove the comment instead:

Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>

Mark.

> void __init paging_init(void)
> {
> --
> 2.16.4
>