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authorDaniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com>2019-12-03 14:31:14 -0500
committerHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>2019-12-11 16:37:02 +0800
commitbfcdcef8c8e3469f4d6c082a1da27a6ef77e5715 (patch)
tree0797276d0ff411c30e50080c9c286be1df8560b8 /kernel
parent3facced7aeed131c1002b724e488d68ebe59c56f (diff)
downloadlinux-bfcdcef8c8e3469f4d6c082a1da27a6ef77e5715.tar.bz2
padata: update documentation
Remove references to unused functions, standardize language, update to reflect new functionality, migrate to rst format, and fix all kernel-doc warnings. Fixes: 815613da6a67 ("kernel/padata.c: removed unused code") Signed-off-by: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com> Cc: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org> Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com> Cc: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/padata.c35
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/padata.c b/kernel/padata.c
index db950d287b3d..72777c10bb9c 100644
--- a/kernel/padata.c
+++ b/kernel/padata.c
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
/*
* padata.c - generic interface to process data streams in parallel
*
- * See Documentation/padata.txt for an api documentation.
+ * See Documentation/core-api/padata.rst for more information.
*
* Copyright (C) 2008, 2009 secunet Security Networks AG
* Copyright (C) 2008, 2009 Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
@@ -99,6 +99,8 @@ static void padata_parallel_worker(struct work_struct *parallel_work)
* The parallelization callback function will run with BHs off.
* Note: Every object which is parallelized by padata_do_parallel
* must be seen by padata_do_serial.
+ *
+ * Return: 0 on success or else negative error code.
*/
int padata_do_parallel(struct padata_shell *ps,
struct padata_priv *padata, int *cb_cpu)
@@ -163,14 +165,12 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(padata_do_parallel);
/*
* padata_find_next - Find the next object that needs serialization.
*
- * Return values are:
- *
- * A pointer to the control struct of the next object that needs
- * serialization, if present in one of the percpu reorder queues.
- *
- * NULL, if the next object that needs serialization will
- * be parallel processed by another cpu and is not yet present in
- * the cpu's reorder queue.
+ * Return:
+ * * A pointer to the control struct of the next object that needs
+ * serialization, if present in one of the percpu reorder queues.
+ * * NULL, if the next object that needs serialization will
+ * be parallel processed by another cpu and is not yet present in
+ * the cpu's reorder queue.
*/
static struct padata_priv *padata_find_next(struct parallel_data *pd,
bool remove_object)
@@ -582,13 +582,14 @@ out_replace:
}
/**
- * padata_set_cpumask: Sets specified by @cpumask_type cpumask to the value
- * equivalent to @cpumask.
- *
+ * padata_set_cpumask - Sets specified by @cpumask_type cpumask to the value
+ * equivalent to @cpumask.
* @pinst: padata instance
* @cpumask_type: PADATA_CPU_SERIAL or PADATA_CPU_PARALLEL corresponding
* to parallel and serial cpumasks respectively.
* @cpumask: the cpumask to use
+ *
+ * Return: 0 on success or negative error code
*/
int padata_set_cpumask(struct padata_instance *pinst, int cpumask_type,
cpumask_var_t cpumask)
@@ -626,6 +627,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(padata_set_cpumask);
* padata_start - start the parallel processing
*
* @pinst: padata instance to start
+ *
+ * Return: 0 on success or negative error code
*/
int padata_start(struct padata_instance *pinst)
{
@@ -880,6 +883,8 @@ static struct kobj_type padata_attr_type = {
* @name: used to identify the instance
* @pcpumask: cpumask that will be used for padata parallelization
* @cbcpumask: cpumask that will be used for padata serialization
+ *
+ * Return: new instance on success, NULL on error
*/
static struct padata_instance *padata_alloc(const char *name,
const struct cpumask *pcpumask,
@@ -967,6 +972,8 @@ err:
* parallel workers.
*
* @name: used to identify the instance
+ *
+ * Return: new instance on success, NULL on error
*/
struct padata_instance *padata_alloc_possible(const char *name)
{
@@ -977,7 +984,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(padata_alloc_possible);
/**
* padata_free - free a padata instance
*
- * @padata_inst: padata instance to free
+ * @pinst: padata instance to free
*/
void padata_free(struct padata_instance *pinst)
{
@@ -989,6 +996,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(padata_free);
* padata_alloc_shell - Allocate and initialize padata shell.
*
* @pinst: Parent padata_instance object.
+ *
+ * Return: new shell on success, NULL on error
*/
struct padata_shell *padata_alloc_shell(struct padata_instance *pinst)
{