Commit 4c78a663 authored by Randy Dunlap's avatar Randy Dunlap Committed by Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] kernel-doc for relay interface

Add relay interface support to DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl.  Fix typos etc.  in
relay.c and relayfs.txt.
Signed-off-by: default avatarRandy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Acked-by: default avatarTom Zanussi <zanussi@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
parent c0d92cbc
......@@ -202,6 +202,22 @@ X!Ilib/string.c
</sect1>
</chapter>
<chapter id="relayfs">
<title>relay interface support</title>
<para>
Relay interface support
is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
user space.
</para>
<sect1><title>relay interface</title>
!Ekernel/relay.c
!Ikernel/relay.c
</sect1>
</chapter>
<chapter id="vfs">
<title>The Linux VFS</title>
<sect1><title>The Filesystem types</title>
......
......@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ int relay_mmap_buf(struct rchan_buf *buf, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
* @buf: the buffer struct
* @size: total size of the buffer
*
* Returns a pointer to the resulting buffer, NULL if unsuccessful. The
* Returns a pointer to the resulting buffer, %NULL if unsuccessful. The
* passed in size will get page aligned, if it isn't already.
*/
static void *relay_alloc_buf(struct rchan_buf *buf, size_t *size)
......@@ -132,10 +132,9 @@ static void *relay_alloc_buf(struct rchan_buf *buf, size_t *size)
/**
* relay_create_buf - allocate and initialize a channel buffer
* @alloc_size: size of the buffer to allocate
* @n_subbufs: number of sub-buffers in the channel
* @chan: the relay channel
*
* Returns channel buffer if successful, NULL otherwise
* Returns channel buffer if successful, %NULL otherwise.
*/
struct rchan_buf *relay_create_buf(struct rchan *chan)
{
......@@ -163,6 +162,7 @@ struct rchan_buf *relay_create_buf(struct rchan *chan)
/**
* relay_destroy_channel - free the channel struct
* @kref: target kernel reference that contains the relay channel
*
* Should only be called from kref_put().
*/
......@@ -194,6 +194,7 @@ void relay_destroy_buf(struct rchan_buf *buf)
/**
* relay_remove_buf - remove a channel buffer
* @kref: target kernel reference that contains the relay buffer
*
* Removes the file from the fileystem, which also frees the
* rchan_buf_struct and the channel buffer. Should only be called from
......@@ -374,7 +375,7 @@ void relay_reset(struct rchan *chan)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(relay_reset);
/**
/*
* relay_open_buf - create a new relay channel buffer
*
* Internal - used by relay_open().
......@@ -448,12 +449,12 @@ static inline void setup_callbacks(struct rchan *chan,
/**
* relay_open - create a new relay channel
* @base_filename: base name of files to create
* @parent: dentry of parent directory, NULL for root directory
* @parent: dentry of parent directory, %NULL for root directory
* @subbuf_size: size of sub-buffers
* @n_subbufs: number of sub-buffers
* @cb: client callback functions
*
* Returns channel pointer if successful, NULL otherwise.
* Returns channel pointer if successful, %NULL otherwise.
*
* Creates a channel buffer for each cpu using the sizes and
* attributes specified. The created channel buffer files
......@@ -585,7 +586,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(relay_switch_subbuf);
* subbufs_consumed should be the number of sub-buffers newly consumed,
* not the total consumed.
*
* NOTE: kernel clients don't need to call this function if the channel
* NOTE: Kernel clients don't need to call this function if the channel
* mode is 'overwrite'.
*/
void relay_subbufs_consumed(struct rchan *chan,
......@@ -641,7 +642,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(relay_close);
* relay_flush - close the channel
* @chan: the channel
*
* Flushes all channel buffers i.e. forces buffer switch.
* Flushes all channel buffers, i.e. forces buffer switch.
*/
void relay_flush(struct rchan *chan)
{
......@@ -729,7 +730,7 @@ static int relay_file_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
return 0;
}
/**
/*
* relay_file_read_consume - update the consumed count for the buffer
*/
static void relay_file_read_consume(struct rchan_buf *buf,
......@@ -756,7 +757,7 @@ static void relay_file_read_consume(struct rchan_buf *buf,
}
}
/**
/*
* relay_file_read_avail - boolean, are there unconsumed bytes available?
*/
static int relay_file_read_avail(struct rchan_buf *buf, size_t read_pos)
......@@ -793,6 +794,8 @@ static int relay_file_read_avail(struct rchan_buf *buf, size_t read_pos)
/**
* relay_file_read_subbuf_avail - return bytes available in sub-buffer
* @read_pos: file read position
* @buf: relay channel buffer
*/
static size_t relay_file_read_subbuf_avail(size_t read_pos,
struct rchan_buf *buf)
......@@ -818,6 +821,8 @@ static size_t relay_file_read_subbuf_avail(size_t read_pos,
/**
* relay_file_read_start_pos - find the first available byte to read
* @read_pos: file read position
* @buf: relay channel buffer
*
* If the read_pos is in the middle of padding, return the
* position of the first actually available byte, otherwise
......@@ -844,6 +849,9 @@ static size_t relay_file_read_start_pos(size_t read_pos,
/**
* relay_file_read_end_pos - return the new read position
* @read_pos: file read position
* @buf: relay channel buffer
* @count: number of bytes to be read
*/
static size_t relay_file_read_end_pos(struct rchan_buf *buf,
size_t read_pos,
......@@ -865,7 +873,7 @@ static size_t relay_file_read_end_pos(struct rchan_buf *buf,
return end_pos;
}
/**
/*
* subbuf_read_actor - read up to one subbuf's worth of data
*/
static int subbuf_read_actor(size_t read_start,
......@@ -890,7 +898,7 @@ static int subbuf_read_actor(size_t read_start,
return ret;
}
/**
/*
* subbuf_send_actor - send up to one subbuf's worth of data
*/
static int subbuf_send_actor(size_t read_start,
......@@ -933,7 +941,7 @@ typedef int (*subbuf_actor_t) (size_t read_start,
read_descriptor_t *desc,
read_actor_t actor);
/**
/*
* relay_file_read_subbufs - read count bytes, bridging subbuf boundaries
*/
static inline ssize_t relay_file_read_subbufs(struct file *filp,
......
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