On Thu, Jan 04, 2024 at 04:36:51PM +0000, Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) wrote: > The extra indentation confused the kernel-doc parser, so remove it. > Fix some other wording while I'm here, and advise the user they need to > call brelse() on this buffer. > It looks like __bread_gfp has the same problem: diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c index 967f34b70aa8..cfdf45cc290a 100644 --- a/fs/buffer.c +++ b/fs/buffer.c @@ -1446,16 +1446,18 @@ void __breadahead(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t block, unsigned size) EXPORT_SYMBOL(__breadahead); /** - * __bread_gfp() - reads a specified block and returns the bh - * @bdev: the block_device to read from - * @block: number of block - * @size: size (in bytes) to read - * @gfp: page allocation flag + * __bread_gfp() - Read a block. + * @bdev: The block device to read from. + * @block: Block number in units of block size. + * @size: Block size in bytes. * - * Reads a specified block, and returns buffer head that contains it. - * The page cache can be allocated from non-movable area - * not to prevent page migration if you set gfp to zero. - * It returns NULL if the block was unreadable. + * Read a specified block, and return the buffer head that refers to it. + * The memory can be allocated from a non-movable area to not to prevent + * page migration if you set gfp to zero. The buffer head has its + * refcount elevated and the caller should call brelse() when it has + * finished with the buffer. + * + * Return: NULL if the block was unreadable. */ struct buffer_head * __bread_gfp(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t block, (END) Another option is to just change this in __bread_gfp() and add a See __bread_gfp() in __bread()?