From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Next Mailing List <linux-next@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: build warning after merge of the rcu tree
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2020 10:53:46 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201207185346.GJ2657@paulmck-ThinkPad-P72> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201207104851.20400bba@lwn.net>
On Mon, Dec 07, 2020 at 10:48:51AM -0700, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Dec 2020 08:47:04 -0800
> "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> > I freely confess that I have absolutely no idea what it doesn't like.
> > It is complaining about this header comment, correct?
> >
> > /**
> > * kmem_last_alloc_stack - Get return address and stack for last allocation
> > * @object: object for which to find last-allocation return address.
> > * @stackp: %NULL or pointer to location to place return-address stack.
> > * @nstackp: maximum number of return addresses that may be stored.
> > *
> > * If the pointer references a slab-allocated object and if sufficient
> > * debugging is enabled, return the return address for the corresponding
> > * allocation. If stackp is non-%NULL in %CONFIG_STACKTRACE kernels running
> > * the slub allocator, also copy the return-address stack into @stackp,
> > * limited by @nstackp. Otherwise, return %NULL or an appropriate error
> > * code using %ERR_PTR().
> > *
> > * Return: return address from last allocation, %NULL or negative error code.
> > */
>
> The problem is the %ERR_PTR(). I'm honestly not quite sure why, Sphinx is
> being a little weird there. But in any case the % notation is supposed to
> mark a constant, which is not the case here. I'd just take the % signs
> out.
Thank you, will do!
Thanx, Paul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-07 18:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-07 8:20 linux-next: build warning after merge of the rcu tree Stephen Rothwell
2020-12-07 16:47 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-12-07 17:48 ` Jonathan Corbet
2020-12-07 18:53 ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
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2024-01-25 3:33 Stephen Rothwell
2024-01-25 13:18 ` Paul E. McKenney
2023-07-26 2:32 Stephen Rothwell
2023-07-26 3:33 ` Paul E. McKenney
2023-07-26 3:48 ` Paul E. McKenney
2023-07-26 6:37 ` Stephen Rothwell
2023-04-06 4:43 Stephen Rothwell
2023-04-06 14:15 ` Paul E. McKenney
2023-03-21 2:50 Stephen Rothwell
2023-03-21 3:01 ` Boqun Feng
2022-11-07 3:26 Stephen Rothwell
2022-11-07 5:02 ` Paul E. McKenney
2022-11-07 9:28 ` Akira Yokosawa
2022-06-15 5:38 Stephen Rothwell
2022-06-15 13:55 ` Paul E. McKenney
2021-03-04 1:41 Stephen Rothwell
2021-03-04 1:48 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-03-10 2:27 Stephen Rothwell
2020-03-10 2:49 ` Paul E. McKenney
2019-12-12 5:06 Stephen Rothwell
2019-12-12 6:02 ` Paul E. McKenney
2019-12-12 6:38 ` Eric Dumazet
2019-12-12 6:57 ` Eric Dumazet
2020-01-10 21:57 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-01-15 16:42 ` Paul E. McKenney
2019-12-12 11:40 ` Stephen Rothwell
2019-12-13 1:31 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-01-06 17:51 ` Olof Johansson
2020-01-06 18:10 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-01-06 21:08 ` Olof Johansson
2020-01-06 21:43 ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-06-21 6:48 Stephen Rothwell
2017-06-21 13:30 ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-08-24 4:23 Stephen Rothwell
2011-08-24 12:27 ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-08-25 0:46 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2011-08-25 5:04 ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-03-25 5:05 Stephen Rothwell
2011-03-25 19:23 ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-09-06 2:14 Stephen Rothwell
2010-09-06 2:32 ` Neil Brown
2010-09-06 3:02 ` Stephen Rothwell
2010-09-06 5:37 ` Paul E. McKenney
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