Re: [PATCH -next] ext4: Fix jbd2_journal_shrink_scan() and jbd2_journal_shrink_count() kernel-doc comment

From: Jan Kara
Date: Mon Jan 10 2022 - 06:30:37 EST


On Mon 10-01-22 11:02:29, Yang Li wrote:
> Add the description of @shrink and @sc in jbd2_journal_shrink_scan() and
> jbd2_journal_shrink_count() kernel-doc comment to remove warnings found
> by running scripts/kernel-doc, which is caused by using 'make W=1'.
> fs/jbd2/journal.c:1296: warning: Function parameter or member 'shrink'
> not described in 'jbd2_journal_shrink_scan'
> fs/jbd2/journal.c:1296: warning: Function parameter or member 'sc' not
> described in 'jbd2_journal_shrink_scan'
> fs/jbd2/journal.c:1320: warning: Function parameter or member 'shrink'
> not described in 'jbd2_journal_shrink_count'
> fs/jbd2/journal.c:1320: warning: Function parameter or member 'sc' not
> described in 'jbd2_journal_shrink_count'
>
> Reported-by: Abaci Robot <abaci@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Yang Li <yang.lee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks for the fix! Just one comment below:

> /**
> * jbd2_journal_shrink_scan()
> + * @shrink: A callback you can register to apply pressure to ageable caches.
> + * @sc: pass information from page reclaim to the shrinkers.
> *
> * Scan the checkpointed buffer on the checkpoint list and release the
> * journal_head.
> @@ -1312,6 +1314,8 @@ static unsigned long jbd2_journal_shrink_scan(struct shrinker *shrink,
>
> /**
> * jbd2_journal_shrink_count()
> + * @shrink: A callback you can register to apply pressure to ageable caches.
> + * @sc: pass information from page reclaim to the shrinkers.
> *
> * Count the number of checkpoint buffers on the checkpoint list.
> */

I think the comments are unnecessarily verbose and not really helping much.
Maybe just something like:

* @shrink: shrinker to work on
* @sc: reclaim request to process

Honza

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Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx>
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