Thread (20 messages) 20 messages, 5 authors, 2021-05-25

Re: [PATCH 1/5] mm: correct SECTION_SHIFT name in code comments

From: Yu Zhao <hidden>
Date: 2021-05-17 17:18:37
Also in: lkml

On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 5:21 AM Dong Aisheng [off-list ref] wrote:
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Actually SECTIONS_SHIFT is used in the kernel code, fixed the code
comments. BTW, also moved the code comment to where it's defined.

Also fixed a checkpatch complain derived from the original code:
WARNING: please, no space before tabs
+ * SECTIONS_SHIFT    ^I^I#bits space required to store a section #$

Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Yu Zhao <redacted>
Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Dong Aisheng <aisheng.dong@nxp.com>
---
 include/linux/mmzone.h            | 2 --
 include/linux/page-flags-layout.h | 3 +++
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h
index 9cdc88d09f2b..fc23e36cb165 100644
--- a/include/linux/mmzone.h
+++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h
@@ -1198,8 +1198,6 @@ static inline struct zoneref *first_zones_zonelist(struct zonelist *zonelist,
 #ifdef CONFIG_SPARSEMEM

 /*
- * SECTION_SHIFT               #bits space required to store a section #
- *
  * PA_SECTION_SHIFT            physical address to/from section number
  * PFN_SECTION_SHIFT           pfn to/from section number
  */
diff --git a/include/linux/page-flags-layout.h b/include/linux/page-flags-layout.h
index ef1e3e736e14..aff616855492 100644
--- a/include/linux/page-flags-layout.h
+++ b/include/linux/page-flags-layout.h
@@ -26,6 +26,9 @@

 #define ZONES_WIDTH            ZONES_SHIFT

+/*
+ * SECTIONS_SHIFT              #bits space required to store a section #
+ */
IMO, we should either make the original comment helpful or just remove
it. Moving it here doesn't improve readability because it's stating
the obvious.
 #ifdef CONFIG_SPARSEMEM
 #include <asm/sparsemem.h>
 #define SECTIONS_SHIFT (MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS - SECTION_SIZE_BITS)
--
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