Hi Frederic,
On Wed, 16 Jan 2013 13:32:57 +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> This subsystem lacks many explanations on its purpose and
> design. Add these missing comments.
>
> v3: Fix the "hook" based naming as per Ingo's suggestion
[snip]
> +/**
> + * context_tracking_task_switch - context switch the syscall callbacks
To be more kernel-doc-friendly, it'd better adding descriptions for
arguments too:
@prev: the task that is being switched out
@next: the task we are going to switch to
Thanks,
Namhyung
> + *
> + * The context tracking uses the syscall slow path to implement its
> user-kernel
> + * boundaries probes on syscalls. This way it doesn't impact the syscall fast
> + * path on CPUs that don't do context tracking.
> + *
> + * But we need to clear the flag on the previous task because it may later
> + * migrate to some CPU that doesn't do the context tracking. As such the TIF
> + * flag may not be desired there.
> + */
> void context_tracking_task_switch(struct task_struct *prev,
> struct task_struct *next)
> {
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