Re: [rcu:dev.2019.04.28a 85/85] htmldocs: kernel/rcu/sync.c:74: warning: Function parameter or member 'rcu' not described in 'rcu_sync_func'

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Fri May 03 2019 - 10:16:18 EST


On Fri, May 03, 2019 at 02:58:59PM +0800, kbuild test robot wrote:
> tree: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu.git dev.2019.04.28a
> head: a4e0e069df6e8718bf165fb009cd3a23e7a808a3
> commit: a4e0e069df6e8718bf165fb009cd3a23e7a808a3 [85/85] rcu/sync: Simplify the state machine
> reproduce: make htmldocs
>
> If you fix the issue, kindly add following tag
> Reported-by: kbuild test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> All warnings (new ones prefixed by >>):
>
> WARNING: convert(1) not found, for SVG to PDF conversion install ImageMagick (https://www.imagemagick.org)
> include/linux/generic-radix-tree.h:1: warning: no structured comments found
> kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h:1: warning: no structured comments found
> >> kernel/rcu/sync.c:74: warning: Function parameter or member 'rcu' not described in 'rcu_sync_func'
> kernel/rcu/sync.c:74: warning: Excess function parameter 'rhp' description in 'rcu_sync_func'

Good catch! I will be folding in the diff shown below.

> kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h:1: warning: no structured comments found

Maybe I should add some? ;-)

Thanx, Paul

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commit 54479fcd0f2956d4168a5e2dd170bc9b2689df45
Author: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri May 3 07:13:42 2019 -0700

squash! rcu/sync: Simplify the state machine

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
[ paulmck: Tweaks to make htmldocs happy. (Reported by kbuild test robot.) ]

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/sync.c b/kernel/rcu/sync.c
index f72b779f9a8a..d4558ab7a07d 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/sync.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/sync.c
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ void rcu_sync_enter_start(struct rcu_sync *rsp)
}


-static void rcu_sync_func(struct rcu_head *rcu);
+static void rcu_sync_func(struct rcu_head *rhp);

static void rcu_sync_call(struct rcu_sync *rsp)
{
@@ -70,9 +70,9 @@ static void rcu_sync_call(struct rcu_sync *rsp)
* rcu_sync_exit(). Otherwise, set all state back to idle so that readers
* can again use their fastpaths.
*/
-static void rcu_sync_func(struct rcu_head *rcu)
+static void rcu_sync_func(struct rcu_head *rhp)
{
- struct rcu_sync *rsp = container_of(rcu, struct rcu_sync, cb_head);
+ struct rcu_sync *rsp = container_of(rhp, struct rcu_sync, cb_head);
unsigned long flags;

WARN_ON_ONCE(READ_ONCE(rsp->gp_state) == GP_IDLE);