[PATCH] ftrace: fix most kernel-doc warnings

From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Fri Feb 23 2024 - 00:49:08 EST


Reduce the number of kernel-doc warnings from 52 down to 10, i.e.,
fix 42 kernel-doc warnings by (a) using the Returns: format for
function return values or (b) using "@var:" instead of "@var -"
for function parameter descriptions.

Fix one return values list so that it is formatted correctly when
rendered for output.

Spell "non-zero" with a hyphen in several places.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202312180518.X6fRyDSN-lkp@xxxxxxxxx/
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-trace-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
This patch addresses most of the reported kernel-doc warnings but does
not fix all of them, so I did not use "Closes:" for the Link: tag.

kernel/trace/ftrace.c | 90 ++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
1 file changed, 46 insertions(+), 44 deletions(-)

diff -- a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
--- a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
@@ -1160,7 +1160,7 @@ __ftrace_lookup_ip(struct ftrace_hash *h
* Search a given @hash to see if a given instruction pointer (@ip)
* exists in it.
*
- * Returns the entry that holds the @ip if found. NULL otherwise.
+ * Returns: the entry that holds the @ip if found. NULL otherwise.
*/
struct ftrace_func_entry *
ftrace_lookup_ip(struct ftrace_hash *hash, unsigned long ip)
@@ -1282,7 +1282,7 @@ static void free_ftrace_hash_rcu(struct

/**
* ftrace_free_filter - remove all filters for an ftrace_ops
- * @ops - the ops to remove the filters from
+ * @ops: the ops to remove the filters from
*/
void ftrace_free_filter(struct ftrace_ops *ops)
{
@@ -1587,7 +1587,7 @@ static struct dyn_ftrace *lookup_rec(uns
* @end: end of range to search (inclusive). @end points to the last byte
* to check.
*
- * Returns rec->ip if the related ftrace location is a least partly within
+ * Returns: rec->ip if the related ftrace location is a least partly within
* the given address range. That is, the first address of the instruction
* that is either a NOP or call to the function tracer. It checks the ftrace
* internal tables to determine if the address belongs or not.
@@ -1607,9 +1607,10 @@ unsigned long ftrace_location_range(unsi
* ftrace_location - return the ftrace location
* @ip: the instruction pointer to check
*
- * If @ip matches the ftrace location, return @ip.
- * If @ip matches sym+0, return sym's ftrace location.
- * Otherwise, return 0.
+ * Returns:
+ * * If @ip matches the ftrace location, return @ip.
+ * * If @ip matches sym+0, return sym's ftrace location.
+ * * Otherwise, return 0.
*/
unsigned long ftrace_location(unsigned long ip)
{
@@ -1639,7 +1640,7 @@ out:
* @start: start of range to search
* @end: end of range to search (inclusive). @end points to the last byte to check.
*
- * Returns 1 if @start and @end contains a ftrace location.
+ * Returns: 1 if @start and @end contains a ftrace location.
* That is, the instruction that is either a NOP or call to
* the function tracer. It checks the ftrace internal tables to
* determine if the address belongs or not.
@@ -2574,7 +2575,7 @@ static void call_direct_funcs(unsigned l
* wants to convert to a callback that saves all regs. If FTRACE_FL_REGS
* is not set, then it wants to convert to the normal callback.
*
- * Returns the address of the trampoline to set to
+ * Returns: the address of the trampoline to set to
*/
unsigned long ftrace_get_addr_new(struct dyn_ftrace *rec)
{
@@ -2615,7 +2616,7 @@ unsigned long ftrace_get_addr_new(struct
* a function that saves all the regs. Basically the '_EN' version
* represents the current state of the function.
*
- * Returns the address of the trampoline that is currently being called
+ * Returns: the address of the trampoline that is currently being called
*/
unsigned long ftrace_get_addr_curr(struct dyn_ftrace *rec)
{
@@ -2719,7 +2720,7 @@ struct ftrace_rec_iter {
/**
* ftrace_rec_iter_start - start up iterating over traced functions
*
- * Returns an iterator handle that is used to iterate over all
+ * Returns: an iterator handle that is used to iterate over all
* the records that represent address locations where functions
* are traced.
*
@@ -2751,7 +2752,7 @@ struct ftrace_rec_iter *ftrace_rec_iter_
* ftrace_rec_iter_next - get the next record to process.
* @iter: The handle to the iterator.
*
- * Returns the next iterator after the given iterator @iter.
+ * Returns: the next iterator after the given iterator @iter.
*/
struct ftrace_rec_iter *ftrace_rec_iter_next(struct ftrace_rec_iter *iter)
{
@@ -2776,7 +2777,7 @@ struct ftrace_rec_iter *ftrace_rec_iter_
* ftrace_rec_iter_record - get the record at the iterator location
* @iter: The current iterator location
*
- * Returns the record that the current @iter is at.
+ * Returns: the record that the current @iter is at.
*/
struct dyn_ftrace *ftrace_rec_iter_record(struct ftrace_rec_iter *iter)
{
@@ -4010,6 +4011,8 @@ ftrace_avail_addrs_open(struct inode *in
* ftrace_notrace_write() if @flag has FTRACE_ITER_NOTRACE set.
* tracing_lseek() should be used as the lseek routine, and
* release must call ftrace_regex_release().
+ *
+ * Returns: 0 on success or a negative errno value on failure
*/
int
ftrace_regex_open(struct ftrace_ops *ops, int flag,
@@ -4626,7 +4629,7 @@ struct ftrace_func_mapper {
/**
* allocate_ftrace_func_mapper - allocate a new ftrace_func_mapper
*
- * Returns a ftrace_func_mapper descriptor that can be used to map ips to data.
+ * Returns: a ftrace_func_mapper descriptor that can be used to map ips to data.
*/
struct ftrace_func_mapper *allocate_ftrace_func_mapper(void)
{
@@ -4646,7 +4649,7 @@ struct ftrace_func_mapper *allocate_ftra
* @mapper: The mapper that has the ip maps
* @ip: the instruction pointer to find the data for
*
- * Returns the data mapped to @ip if found otherwise NULL. The return
+ * Returns: the data mapped to @ip if found otherwise NULL. The return
* is actually the address of the mapper data pointer. The address is
* returned for use cases where the data is no bigger than a long, and
* the user can use the data pointer as its data instead of having to
@@ -4672,7 +4675,7 @@ void **ftrace_func_mapper_find_ip(struct
* @ip: The instruction pointer address to map @data to
* @data: The data to map to @ip
*
- * Returns 0 on success otherwise an error.
+ * Returns: 0 on success otherwise an error.
*/
int ftrace_func_mapper_add_ip(struct ftrace_func_mapper *mapper,
unsigned long ip, void *data)
@@ -4701,7 +4704,7 @@ int ftrace_func_mapper_add_ip(struct ftr
* @mapper: The mapper that has the ip maps
* @ip: The instruction pointer address to remove the data from
*
- * Returns the data if it is found, otherwise NULL.
+ * Returns: the data if it is found, otherwise NULL.
* Note, if the data pointer is used as the data itself, (see
* ftrace_func_mapper_find_ip(), then the return value may be meaningless,
* if the data pointer was set to zero.
@@ -5630,10 +5633,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(modify_ftrace_direct);

/**
* ftrace_set_filter_ip - set a function to filter on in ftrace by address
- * @ops - the ops to set the filter with
- * @ip - the address to add to or remove from the filter.
- * @remove - non zero to remove the ip from the filter
- * @reset - non zero to reset all filters before applying this filter.
+ * @ops: the ops to set the filter with
+ * @ip: the address to add to or remove from the filter.
+ * @remove: non zero to remove the ip from the filter
+ * @reset: non zero to reset all filters before applying this filter.
*
* Filters denote which functions should be enabled when tracing is enabled
* If @ip is NULL, it fails to update filter.
@@ -5652,11 +5655,11 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ftrace_set_filter_ip);

/**
* ftrace_set_filter_ips - set functions to filter on in ftrace by addresses
- * @ops - the ops to set the filter with
- * @ips - the array of addresses to add to or remove from the filter.
- * @cnt - the number of addresses in @ips
- * @remove - non zero to remove ips from the filter
- * @reset - non zero to reset all filters before applying this filter.
+ * @ops: the ops to set the filter with
+ * @ips: the array of addresses to add to or remove from the filter.
+ * @cnt: the number of addresses in @ips
+ * @remove: non zero to remove ips from the filter
+ * @reset: non zero to reset all filters before applying this filter.
*
* Filters denote which functions should be enabled when tracing is enabled
* If @ips array or any ip specified within is NULL , it fails to update filter.
@@ -5675,7 +5678,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ftrace_set_filter_ips)

/**
* ftrace_ops_set_global_filter - setup ops to use global filters
- * @ops - the ops which will use the global filters
+ * @ops: the ops which will use the global filters
*
* ftrace users who need global function trace filtering should call this.
* It can set the global filter only if ops were not initialized before.
@@ -5699,10 +5702,10 @@ ftrace_set_regex(struct ftrace_ops *ops,

/**
* ftrace_set_filter - set a function to filter on in ftrace
- * @ops - the ops to set the filter with
- * @buf - the string that holds the function filter text.
- * @len - the length of the string.
- * @reset - non zero to reset all filters before applying this filter.
+ * @ops: the ops to set the filter with
+ * @buf: the string that holds the function filter text.
+ * @len: the length of the string.
+ * @reset: non-zero to reset all filters before applying this filter.
*
* Filters denote which functions should be enabled when tracing is enabled.
* If @buf is NULL and reset is set, all functions will be enabled for tracing.
@@ -5721,10 +5724,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ftrace_set_filter);

/**
* ftrace_set_notrace - set a function to not trace in ftrace
- * @ops - the ops to set the notrace filter with
- * @buf - the string that holds the function notrace text.
- * @len - the length of the string.
- * @reset - non zero to reset all filters before applying this filter.
+ * @ops: the ops to set the notrace filter with
+ * @buf: the string that holds the function notrace text.
+ * @len: the length of the string.
+ * @reset: non-zero to reset all filters before applying this filter.
*
* Notrace Filters denote which functions should not be enabled when tracing
* is enabled. If @buf is NULL and reset is set, all functions will be enabled
@@ -5743,9 +5746,9 @@ int ftrace_set_notrace(struct ftrace_ops
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ftrace_set_notrace);
/**
* ftrace_set_global_filter - set a function to filter on with global tracers
- * @buf - the string that holds the function filter text.
- * @len - the length of the string.
- * @reset - non zero to reset all filters before applying this filter.
+ * @buf: the string that holds the function filter text.
+ * @len: the length of the string.
+ * @reset: non-zero to reset all filters before applying this filter.
*
* Filters denote which functions should be enabled when tracing is enabled.
* If @buf is NULL and reset is set, all functions will be enabled for tracing.
@@ -5758,9 +5761,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ftrace_set_global_filt

/**
* ftrace_set_global_notrace - set a function to not trace with global tracers
- * @buf - the string that holds the function notrace text.
- * @len - the length of the string.
- * @reset - non zero to reset all filters before applying this filter.
+ * @buf: the string that holds the function notrace text.
+ * @len: the length of the string.
+ * @reset: non-zero to reset all filters before applying this filter.
*
* Notrace Filters denote which functions should not be enabled when tracing
* is enabled. If @buf is NULL and reset is set, all functions will be enabled
@@ -7448,7 +7451,7 @@ NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(ftrace_ops_assist_func);
* have its own recursion protection, then it should call the
* ftrace_ops_assist_func() instead.
*
- * Returns the function that the trampoline should call for @ops.
+ * Returns: the function that the trampoline should call for @ops.
*/
ftrace_func_t ftrace_ops_get_func(struct ftrace_ops *ops)
{
@@ -7902,7 +7905,7 @@ void ftrace_kill(void)
/**
* ftrace_is_dead - Test if ftrace is dead or not.
*
- * Returns 1 if ftrace is "dead", zero otherwise.
+ * Returns: 1 if ftrace is "dead", zero otherwise.
*/
int ftrace_is_dead(void)
{
@@ -8147,8 +8150,7 @@ static int kallsyms_callback(void *data,
* @addrs array, which needs to be big enough to store at least @cnt
* addresses.
*
- * This function returns 0 if all provided symbols are found,
- * -ESRCH otherwise.
+ * Returns: 0 if all provided symbols are found, -ESRCH otherwise.
*/
int ftrace_lookup_symbols(const char **sorted_syms, size_t cnt, unsigned long *addrs)
{