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authorBaoquan He <[email protected]>2019-05-14 00:19:32 +0000
committerLinus Torvalds <[email protected]>2019-05-14 16:47:48 +0000
commit7567cfc5da9faadbe56dbd65c802b6b828a57d8b (patch)
treea13064dc730eb8998f854051b578f1d26956a6b5 /mm/sparse.c
parentinclude/linux/balloon_compaction.h: drop unused function stubs (diff)
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mm/sparse.c: clean up obsolete code comment
The code comment above sparse_add_one_section() is obsolete and incorrect. Clean it up and write a new one. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <[email protected]> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Mukesh Ojha <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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diff --git a/mm/sparse.c b/mm/sparse.c
index 56e057c432f9..fd13166949b5 100644
--- a/mm/sparse.c
+++ b/mm/sparse.c
@@ -684,10 +684,18 @@ static void free_map_bootmem(struct page *memmap)
#endif /* CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE */
#endif /* CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP */
-/*
- * returns the number of sections whose mem_maps were properly
- * set. If this is <=0, then that means that the passed-in
- * map was not consumed and must be freed.
+/**
+ * sparse_add_one_section - add a memory section
+ * @nid: The node to add section on
+ * @start_pfn: start pfn of the memory range
+ * @altmap: device page map
+ *
+ * This is only intended for hotplug.
+ *
+ * Return:
+ * * 0 - On success.
+ * * -EEXIST - Section has been present.
+ * * -ENOMEM - Out of memory.
*/
int __meminit sparse_add_one_section(int nid, unsigned long start_pfn,
struct vmem_altmap *altmap)