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author | Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com> | 2006-10-02 11:17:01 +0200 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-10-02 16:57:12 +0200 |
commit | a58cbd7c249f3079dd62d6391a33b9f43f2bfbef (patch) | |
tree | 2763960f7e5eff16e5e4b91aea55ebc3b58333aa | |
parent | [PATCH] LIB: add gen_pool_destroy() (diff) | |
download | linux-a58cbd7c249f3079dd62d6391a33b9f43f2bfbef.tar.xz linux-a58cbd7c249f3079dd62d6391a33b9f43f2bfbef.zip |
[PATCH] make genpool allocator adhere to kernel-doc standards
The exported kernel interfaces of genpool allocator need to adhere to
the requirements of kernel-doc.
Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com>
Cc: Steve Wise <swise@opengridcomputing.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
-rw-r--r-- | lib/genalloc.c | 43 |
1 files changed, 23 insertions, 20 deletions
diff --git a/lib/genalloc.c b/lib/genalloc.c index 7d16ecabba96..75ae68ce03e1 100644 --- a/lib/genalloc.c +++ b/lib/genalloc.c @@ -14,11 +14,13 @@ #include <linux/genalloc.h> -/* - * Create a new special memory pool. - * +/** + * gen_pool_create - create a new special memory pool * @min_alloc_order: log base 2 of number of bytes each bitmap bit represents * @nid: node id of the node the pool structure should be allocated on, or -1 + * + * Create a new special memory pool that can be used to manage special purpose + * memory not managed by the regular kmalloc/kfree interface. */ struct gen_pool *gen_pool_create(int min_alloc_order, int nid) { @@ -34,15 +36,15 @@ struct gen_pool *gen_pool_create(int min_alloc_order, int nid) } EXPORT_SYMBOL(gen_pool_create); - -/* - * Add a new chunk of memory to the specified pool. - * +/** + * gen_pool_add - add a new chunk of special memory to the pool * @pool: pool to add new memory chunk to * @addr: starting address of memory chunk to add to pool * @size: size in bytes of the memory chunk to add to pool * @nid: node id of the node the chunk structure and bitmap should be * allocated on, or -1 + * + * Add a new chunk of special memory to the specified pool. */ int gen_pool_add(struct gen_pool *pool, unsigned long addr, size_t size, int nid) @@ -69,11 +71,12 @@ int gen_pool_add(struct gen_pool *pool, unsigned long addr, size_t size, } EXPORT_SYMBOL(gen_pool_add); - -/* - * Destroy a memory pool. Verifies that there are no outstanding allocations. - * +/** + * gen_pool_destroy - destroy a special memory pool * @pool: pool to destroy + * + * Destroy the specified special memory pool. Verifies that there are no + * outstanding allocations. */ void gen_pool_destroy(struct gen_pool *pool) { @@ -99,13 +102,13 @@ void gen_pool_destroy(struct gen_pool *pool) } EXPORT_SYMBOL(gen_pool_destroy); - -/* - * Allocate the requested number of bytes from the specified pool. - * Uses a first-fit algorithm. - * +/** + * gen_pool_alloc - allocate special memory from the pool * @pool: pool to allocate from * @size: number of bytes to allocate from the pool + * + * Allocate the requested number of bytes from the specified pool. + * Uses a first-fit algorithm. */ unsigned long gen_pool_alloc(struct gen_pool *pool, size_t size) { @@ -157,13 +160,13 @@ unsigned long gen_pool_alloc(struct gen_pool *pool, size_t size) } EXPORT_SYMBOL(gen_pool_alloc); - -/* - * Free the specified memory back to the specified pool. - * +/** + * gen_pool_free - free allocated special memory back to the pool * @pool: pool to free to * @addr: starting address of memory to free back to pool * @size: size in bytes of memory to free + * + * Free previously allocated special memory back to the specified pool. */ void gen_pool_free(struct gen_pool *pool, unsigned long addr, size_t size) { |