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

From: Tang Chen
Date: Tue Jan 15 2013 - 21:12:40 EST


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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