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authorRolf Eike Beer2006-09-26 08:31:22 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds2006-09-26 17:48:47 +0200
commitbfa5bf6d6446f0028187a727f792fbc7934228ad (patch)
treebd996f39ec18a78ea72209204328e48ebf6170f2 /mm/memory.c
parent[PATCH] CPU hotplug compatible alloc_percpu() (diff)
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[PATCH] Add kerneldocs for some functions in mm/memory.c
These functions are already documented quite well with long comments. Now add kerneldoc style header to make this turn up in everyones favorite doc format. Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de> Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/memory.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/memory.c34
1 files changed, 27 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index 65962534b4ed..92a3ebd8d795 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -1227,7 +1227,12 @@ out:
return retval;
}
-/*
+/**
+ * vm_insert_page - insert single page into user vma
+ * @vma: user vma to map to
+ * @addr: target user address of this page
+ * @page: source kernel page
+ *
* This allows drivers to insert individual pages they've allocated
* into a user vma.
*
@@ -1319,7 +1324,16 @@ static inline int remap_pud_range(struct mm_struct *mm, pgd_t *pgd,
return 0;
}
-/* Note: this is only safe if the mm semaphore is held when called. */
+/**
+ * remap_pfn_range - remap kernel memory to userspace
+ * @vma: user vma to map to
+ * @addr: target user address to start at
+ * @pfn: physical address of kernel memory
+ * @size: size of map area
+ * @prot: page protection flags for this mapping
+ *
+ * Note: this is only safe if the mm semaphore is held when called.
+ */
int remap_pfn_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr,
unsigned long pfn, unsigned long size, pgprot_t prot)
{
@@ -1801,9 +1815,10 @@ void unmap_mapping_range(struct address_space *mapping,
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(unmap_mapping_range);
-/*
- * Handle all mappings that got truncated by a "truncate()"
- * system call.
+/**
+ * vmtruncate - unmap mappings "freed" by truncate() syscall
+ * @inode: inode of the file used
+ * @offset: file offset to start truncating
*
* NOTE! We have to be ready to update the memory sharing
* between the file and the memory map for a potential last
@@ -1872,11 +1887,16 @@ int vmtruncate_range(struct inode *inode, loff_t offset, loff_t end)
}
EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL(vmtruncate_range); /* June 2006 */
-/*
+/**
+ * swapin_readahead - swap in pages in hope we need them soon
+ * @entry: swap entry of this memory
+ * @addr: address to start
+ * @vma: user vma this addresses belong to
+ *
* Primitive swap readahead code. We simply read an aligned block of
* (1 << page_cluster) entries in the swap area. This method is chosen
* because it doesn't cost us any seek time. We also make sure to queue
- * the 'original' request together with the readahead ones...
+ * the 'original' request together with the readahead ones...
*
* This has been extended to use the NUMA policies from the mm triggering
* the readahead.