Re: [PATCH -next] sched: fix cid_lock kernel-doc warnings

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Mon May 01 2023 - 09:20:34 EST


On Thu, Apr 27, 2023 at 08:11:11PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> Fix kernel-doc warnings for cid_lock and use_cid_lock.
> These comments are not in kernel-doc format.
>
> kernel/sched/core.c:11496: warning: Cannot understand * @cid_lock: Guarantee forward-progress of cid allocation.
> on line 11496 - I thought it was a doc line
> kernel/sched/core.c:11505: warning: Cannot understand * @use_cid_lock: Select cid allocation behavior: lock-free vs spinlock.
> on line 11505 - I thought it was a doc line
>
> Fixes: 223baf9d17f2 ("sched: Fix performance regression introduced by mm_cid")
> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Blergh, so mostly I avoid kerneldoc like the plague; because then you
get random people doing 'fixups' that end up making the actual comment
unreadable garbage.

Mostly my answer to any such patch is to simply remove the extra * and
call it fixed.

But now the thing presumes to know better? :-(

Anyway, in this case I suppose we can add it on and see, there's still a
fair number of actual kerneldoc comments in that file.

> kernel/sched/core.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff -- a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
> --- a/kernel/sched/core.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
> @@ -11492,7 +11492,7 @@ void call_trace_sched_update_nr_running(
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_MM_CID
>
> -/**
> +/*
> * @cid_lock: Guarantee forward-progress of cid allocation.
> *
> * Concurrency ID allocation within a bitmap is mostly lock-free. The cid_lock
> @@ -11501,7 +11501,7 @@ void call_trace_sched_update_nr_running(
> */
> DEFINE_RAW_SPINLOCK(cid_lock);
>
> -/**
> +/*
> * @use_cid_lock: Select cid allocation behavior: lock-free vs spinlock.
> *
> * When @use_cid_lock is 0, the cid allocation is lock-free. When contention is