The patch titled
Subject: mm/damon: remove obsolete comments of kdamond_stop
has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch. Its filename is
mm-damon-remove-obsolete-comments-of-kdamond_stop.patch
This patch will shortly appear at
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/mm-damon-remove-obsolete-comments-of-kdamond_stop.patch
This patch will later appear in the mm-unstable branch at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
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From: Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm/damon: remove obsolete comments of kdamond_stop
Date: Tue, 31 May 2022 10:04:21 +0800
Since commit 0f91d13366a4 ("mm/damon: simplify stop mechanism") delete
kdamond_stop and change to use kthread stop mechanism, these obsolete
comments should be removed accordingly.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220531020421.46849-1-zhouchengming@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park <sj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/damon.h | 15 +++++++--------
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
--- a/include/linux/damon.h~mm-damon-remove-obsolete-comments-of-kdamond_stop
+++ a/include/linux/damon.h
@@ -397,7 +397,6 @@ struct damon_callback {
* detail.
*
* @kdamond: Kernel thread who does the monitoring.
- * @kdamond_stop: Notifies whether kdamond should stop.
* @kdamond_lock: Mutex for the synchronizations with @kdamond.
*
* For each monitoring context, one kernel thread for the monitoring is
@@ -406,14 +405,14 @@ struct damon_callback {
* Once started, the monitoring thread runs until explicitly required to be
* terminated or every monitoring target is invalid. The validity of the
* targets is checked via the &damon_operations.target_valid of @ops. The
- * termination can also be explicitly requested by writing non-zero to
- * @kdamond_stop. The thread sets @kdamond to NULL when it terminates.
- * Therefore, users can know whether the monitoring is ongoing or terminated by
- * reading @kdamond. Reads and writes to @kdamond and @kdamond_stop from
- * outside of the monitoring thread must be protected by @kdamond_lock.
+ * termination can also be explicitly requested by calling damon_stop().
+ * The thread sets @kdamond to NULL when it terminates. Therefore, users can
+ * know whether the monitoring is ongoing or terminated by reading @kdamond.
+ * Reads and writes to @kdamond from outside of the monitoring thread must
+ * be protected by @kdamond_lock.
*
- * Note that the monitoring thread protects only @kdamond and @kdamond_stop via
- * @kdamond_lock. Accesses to other fields must be protected by themselves.
+ * Note that the monitoring thread protects only @kdamond via @kdamond_lock.
+ * Accesses to other fields must be protected by themselves.
*
* @ops: Set of monitoring operations for given use cases.
* @callback: Set of callbacks for monitoring events notifications.
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Patches currently in -mm which might be from zhouchengming@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are
mm-damon-remove-obsolete-comments-of-kdamond_stop.patch
