[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 5/6] kernel: better document the use_mm/unuse_mm API contract

Pavel Begunkov asml.silence at gmail.com
Sat Apr 4 13:07:31 UTC 2020


On 04/04/2020 12:41, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Switch the function documentation to kerneldoc comments, and add
> WARN_ON_ONCE asserts that the calling thread is a kernel thread and
> does not have ->mm set (or has ->mm set in the case of unuse_mm).
> 
> Also give the functions a kthread_ prefix to better document the
> use case.
> 

io_uring and io-wq bits LGTM.

> --- a/include/linux/kthread.h
> +++ b/include/linux/kthread.h
...
> -/*
> - * unuse_mm
> - *	Reverses the effect of use_mm, i.e. releases the
> - *	specified mm context which was earlier taken on
> - *	by the calling kernel thread
> - *	(Note: this routine is intended to be called only
> - *	from a kernel thread context)
> +/**
> + * kthread_use_mm - reverse the effect of kthread_use_mm()

s/kthread_use_mm/kthread_unuse_mm/
for the first one

> + * @mm: address space to operate on
>   */
> -void unuse_mm(struct mm_struct *mm)
> +void kthread_unuse_mm(struct mm_struct *mm)
>  {

-- 
Pavel Begunkov


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