[BUG Fix Patch 1/6] Bug fix: Hold spinlock across find|remove /sys/firmware/memmap/X operation.

Tang Chen tangchen at cn.fujitsu.com
Wed Jan 16 13:12:07 EST 2013


On 01/16/2013 06:26 AM, Julian Calaby wrote:
> Hi Tang,
>
> One minor point.
>
>>
>>   /*
>> - * Search memmap entry
>> + * firmware_map_find_entry: Search memmap entry.
>> + * @start: Start of the memory range.
>> + * @end:   End of the memory range (exclusive).
>> + * @type:  Type of the memory range.
>> + *
>> + * This function is to find the memmap entey of a given memory range.
>> + * The caller must hold map_entries_lock, and must not release the lock
>> + * until the processing of the returned entry has completed.
>> + *
>> + * Return pointer to the entry to be found on success, or NULL on failure.
>
> Why not make this completely kernel-doc compliant as you're already
> re-writing the comment?

Hi Julian,

Thank you for reminding me this. I think I may have some more problems
like this. I'll post a patch to fix as many of them as I can. :)

Thanks.



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