From: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
To: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>,
"Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)" <urezki@gmail.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"Theodore Y . Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>, RCU <rcu@vger.kernel.org>,
Oleksiy Avramchenko <oleksiy.avramchenko@sonymobile.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/24] rcu/tree: Use consistent style for comments
Date: Sun, 3 May 2020 20:41:35 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200504004135.GF212435@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200504002309.GD2869@paulmck-ThinkPad-P72>
On Sun, May 03, 2020 at 05:23:09PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Sun, May 03, 2020 at 07:44:00PM -0400, Joel Fernandes wrote:
> > On Fri, May 01, 2020 at 01:52:46PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2020-05-01 at 12:05 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 10:58:42PM +0200, Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) wrote:
> > > > > Simple clean up of comments in kfree_rcu() code to keep it consistent
> > > > > with majority of commenting styles.
> > > []
> > > > on /* */ style?
> > > >
> > > > I am (slowly) moving RCU to "//" for those reasons. ;-)
> > >
> > > I hope c99 comment styles are more commonly used soon too.
> > > checkpatch doesn't care.
> > >
> > > Perhaps a change to coding-style.rst
> > > ---
> > > Documentation/process/coding-style.rst | 5 +++++
> > > 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst b/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst
> > > index acb2f1b..fee647 100644
> > > --- a/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst
> > > +++ b/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst
> > > @@ -565,6 +565,11 @@ comments is a little different.
> > > * but there is no initial almost-blank line.
> > > */
> > >
> > > +.. code-block:: c
> > > +
> > > + // Single line and inline comments may also use the c99 // style
> > > + // Block comments as well
> > > +
> > > It's also important to comment data, whether they are basic types or derived
> > > types. To this end, use just one data declaration per line (no commas for
> > > multiple data declarations). This leaves you room for a small comment on each
> >
> > Yeah that's fine with me. This patch just tries to keep it consistent. I am
> > Ok with either style.
>
> My approach has been gradual change. Big-bang changes of this sort
> cause quite a bit of trouble. So I use "//" in new code and (sometimes)
> convert nearby ones when making a change.
Ok thanks for the guidance on that, will follow similar conversion strategy
as well.
thanks,
- Joel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-04 0:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 78+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-28 20:58 [PATCH 00/24] Introduce kvfree_rcu(1 or 2 arguments) Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)
2020-04-28 20:58 ` [PATCH 01/24] rcu/tree: Keep kfree_rcu() awake during lock contention Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)
2020-04-28 20:58 ` [PATCH 02/24] rcu/tree: Skip entry into the page allocator for PREEMPT_RT Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)
2020-04-28 20:58 ` [PATCH 03/24] rcu/tree: Use consistent style for comments Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)
2020-05-01 19:05 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-05-01 20:52 ` Joe Perches
2020-05-03 23:44 ` Joel Fernandes
2020-05-04 0:23 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-05-04 0:34 ` Joe Perches
2020-05-04 0:41 ` Joel Fernandes [this message]
2020-05-03 23:52 ` Joel Fernandes
2020-05-04 0:26 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-05-04 0:39 ` Joel Fernandes
2020-04-28 20:58 ` [PATCH 04/24] rcu/tree: Repeat the monitor if any free channel is busy Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)
2020-04-28 20:58 ` [PATCH 05/24] rcu/tree: Simplify debug_objects handling Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)
2020-04-28 20:58 ` [PATCH 06/24] rcu/tree: Simplify KFREE_BULK_MAX_ENTR macro Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)
2020-04-28 20:58 ` [PATCH 07/24] rcu/tree: move locking/unlocking to separate functions Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)
2020-04-28 20:58 ` [PATCH 08/24] rcu/tree: Use static initializer for krc.lock Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)
2020-05-01 21:17 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-05-04 12:10 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2020-04-28 20:58 ` [PATCH 09/24] rcu/tree: cache specified number of objects Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)
2020-05-01 21:27 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-05-04 12:43 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2020-05-04 15:24 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-05-04 17:48 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2020-05-04 18:07 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-05-04 18:08 ` Joel Fernandes
2020-05-04 19:01 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-05-04 19:37 ` Joel Fernandes
2020-05-04 19:51 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2020-05-04 20:15 ` joel
2020-05-04 20:16 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-05-05 11:03 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2020-04-28 20:58 ` [PATCH 10/24] rcu/tree: add rcutree.rcu_min_cached_objs description Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)
2020-05-01 22:25 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-05-04 12:44 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2020-04-28 20:58 ` [PATCH 11/24] rcu/tree: Maintain separate array for vmalloc ptrs Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)
2020-05-01 21:37 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-05-03 23:42 ` Joel Fernandes
2020-05-04 0:20 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-05-04 0:58 ` Joel Fernandes
2020-05-04 2:20 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-05-04 14:25 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2020-04-28 20:58 ` [PATCH 12/24] rcu/tiny: support vmalloc in tiny-RCU Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)
2020-04-28 20:58 ` [PATCH 13/24] rcu: Rename rcu_invoke_kfree_callback/rcu_kfree_callback Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)
2020-04-28 20:58 ` [PATCH 14/24] rcu: Rename __is_kfree_rcu_offset() macro Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)
2020-04-28 20:58 ` [PATCH 15/24] rcu: Rename kfree_call_rcu() to the kvfree_call_rcu() Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)
2020-04-28 20:58 ` [PATCH 16/24] mm/list_lru.c: Rename kvfree_rcu() to local variant Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)
2020-04-28 20:58 ` [PATCH 17/24] rcu: Introduce 2 arg kvfree_rcu() interface Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)
2020-04-28 20:58 ` [PATCH 18/24] mm/list_lru.c: Remove kvfree_rcu_local() function Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)
2020-04-28 20:58 ` [PATCH 19/24] rcu/tree: Support reclaim for head-less object Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)
2020-05-01 22:39 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-05-04 0:12 ` Joel Fernandes
2020-05-04 0:28 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-05-04 0:32 ` Joel Fernandes
2020-05-04 14:21 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2020-05-04 15:31 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-05-04 16:56 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2020-05-04 17:08 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-05-04 12:57 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2020-04-28 20:58 ` [PATCH 20/24] rcu/tree: Make kvfree_rcu() tolerate any alignment Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)
2020-05-01 23:00 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-05-04 0:24 ` Joel Fernandes
2020-05-04 0:29 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-05-04 0:31 ` Joel Fernandes
2020-05-04 12:56 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2020-04-28 20:59 ` [PATCH 21/24] rcu/tiny: move kvfree_call_rcu() out of header Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)
2020-05-01 23:03 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-05-04 12:45 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2020-05-06 18:29 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2020-05-06 18:45 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-05-07 17:34 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2020-04-28 20:59 ` [PATCH 22/24] rcu/tiny: support reclaim for head-less object Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)
2020-05-01 23:06 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-05-04 0:27 ` Joel Fernandes
2020-05-04 12:45 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2020-04-28 20:59 ` [PATCH 23/24] rcu: Introduce 1 arg kvfree_rcu() interface Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)
2020-04-28 20:59 ` [PATCH 24/24] lib/test_vmalloc.c: Add test cases for kvfree_rcu() Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)
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