Re: [PATCH v4 0/4] Extend and reorganize Highmem's documentation

From: ira . weiny
Date: Sun May 01 2022 - 01:11:50 EST


On Thu, Apr 28, 2022 at 11:24:51PM +0200, Fabio M. De Francesco wrote:
> This series has the purpose to extend and reorganize Highmem's
> documentation.
>
> This is a work in progress because some information should still be moved
> from highmem.rst to highmem.h and highmem-internal.h. Specifically I'm
> talking about moving the "how to" information to the relevant headers, as
> it as been suggested by Ira Weiny (Intel).
>
> Also, this is a work in progress because some kdocs in highmem.h and
> highmem-internal.h should be improved.
>
> However, I think (and hope that my thoughts are also shared by Maintainers
> and Reviewers) that this series constitues a sensible step forward
> improving Highmem's documentation, despite some important issues are not
> yet addressed.

For the series:

Reviewed-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@xxxxxxxxx>

>
> Changes from v1 to v2:
>
> 1/4 - Fix typos (Mike Rapoport); re-write the description of @page
> because the original was wrong (Ira Weiny); add Ira's and
> Mike's tags in the commit message.
> 2/4 - Add Ira's and Mike's tags in the commit message.
> 3/4 - Rework the subject to better summarize what this patch
> changes; merge the section which was removed from highmem.rst
> with the kdocs of highmem.h (suggested by Ira Weiny); add
> Ira's tag in the commit message.
> 4/4 - Reformulate a sentence that was incomprehensible due to my
> own mistakes in copying and pasting the text of another
> paragraph (problem noted by Ira Weiny); refer to the kdocs
> of kmap_local_page () to show how nested mappings should be
> handled; fix grammar error; add Ira's tag in the commit
> message.
>
> Changes from v2 to v3:
>
> 1/4 - Add a deprecation notice to kunmap_atomic() for consistency
> with the same notice in kmap_atomic() (Sebastian Andrzej
> Siewior); shorten subject and extend commit message.
> 2/4 - No changes.
> 3/4 - No changes.
> 4/4 - Correct a technical inaccuracy about preemption disabling /
> re-enabling in kmap_atomic() / kunmap_atomic() (Sebastian
> Andrzej Siewior).
>
> Changes from v3 to v4:
>
> 1/4 - Correct some techinal inaccuracies about the side effects
> of calling kmap_atomic() and kmap_local_page() (Sebastian
> Andrzej Siewior); drop "Acked-by:" and "Reviewed-by:" tags
> because relevant parts of this patch have changed.
> 2/4 - No changes.
> 3/4 - No changes.
> 4/4 - Shorten a couple of paragraphs by removing redundant
> information (Sebastian Andrzej Siewior).
>
> Fabio M. De Francesco (4):
> mm/highmem: Fix kernel-doc warnings in highmem*.h
> Documentation/vm: Include kdocs from highmem*.h into highmem.rst
> Documentation/vm: Move "Using kmap-atomic" from highmem.rst to
> highmem.h
> Documentation/vm: Rework "Temporary Virtual Mappings" section
>
> Documentation/vm/highmem.rst | 100 ++++++++++++++++++-------------
> include/linux/highmem-internal.h | 18 +++++-
> include/linux/highmem.h | 51 ++++++++++++----
> 3 files changed, 113 insertions(+), 56 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.34.1
>