Re: [PATCH 4/5] buffer: Fix __bread() kernel-doc

From: Pankaj Raghav (Samsung)
Date: Mon Jan 08 2024 - 13:53:51 EST


On Mon, Jan 08, 2024 at 04:09:01PM +0000, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 08, 2024 at 03:58:08PM +0100, Pankaj Raghav (Samsung) wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 04, 2024 at 04:36:51PM +0000, Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) wrote:
> > > The extra indentation confused the kernel-doc parser, so remove it.
> > > Fix some other wording while I'm here, and advise the user they need to
> > > call brelse() on this buffer.
> > >
> > It looks like __bread_gfp has the same problem:
>
> I'm happy to incorporate this patch, but I'll need your S-o-B on it.

Something like this:

From: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2024 19:37:41 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] buffer: Update __bread() and __bread_gfp kernel-doc

The extra indentation confused the kernel-doc parser, so remove it.
Fix some other wording while I'm here, and advise the user they need to
call brelse() on this buffer.

Instead of duplicating the doc in __bread() and __bread_gfp(), update
__bread_gfp() doc and point to it from __bread().

Signed-off-by: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Pankaj Raghav <p.raghav@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/buffer.c | 21 ++++++++++++---------
include/linux/buffer_head.h | 9 +--------
2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c
index 967f34b70aa8..ea55fb3fcfae 100644
--- a/fs/buffer.c
+++ b/fs/buffer.c
@@ -1446,16 +1446,19 @@ void __breadahead(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t block, unsigned size)
EXPORT_SYMBOL(__breadahead);

/**
- * __bread_gfp() - reads a specified block and returns the bh
- * @bdev: the block_device to read from
- * @block: number of block
- * @size: size (in bytes) to read
- * @gfp: page allocation flag
+ * __bread_gfp() - Read a block.
+ * @bdev: The block device to read from.
+ * @block: Block number in units of block size.
+ * @size: Block size in bytes.
+ * @gfp: gfp flags.
*
- * Reads a specified block, and returns buffer head that contains it.
- * The page cache can be allocated from non-movable area
- * not to prevent page migration if you set gfp to zero.
- * It returns NULL if the block was unreadable.
+ * Read a specified block, and return the buffer head that refers to it.
+ * The memory can be allocated from a non-movable area to not to prevent
+ * page migration if you set gfp to zero. The buffer head has its
+ * refcount elevated and the caller should call brelse() when it has
+ * finished with the buffer.
+ *
+ * Return: NULL if the block was unreadable.
*/
struct buffer_head *
__bread_gfp(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t block,
diff --git a/include/linux/buffer_head.h b/include/linux/buffer_head.h
index 5f23ee599889..ac56014b29dd 100644
--- a/include/linux/buffer_head.h
+++ b/include/linux/buffer_head.h
@@ -440,14 +440,7 @@ static inline void bh_readahead_batch(int nr, struct buffer_head *bhs[],
}

/**
- * __bread() - reads a specified block and returns the bh
- * @bdev: the block_device to read from
- * @block: number of block
- * @size: size (in bytes) to read
- *
- * Reads a specified block, and returns buffer head that contains it.
- * The page cache is allocated from movable area so that it can be migrated.
- * It returns NULL if the block was unreadable.
+ * See __bread_gfp()
*/
static inline struct buffer_head *
__bread(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t block, unsigned size)
--
2.40.1