[PATCH v10 12/26] gunyah: vm_mgr: Add/remove user memory regions

Srinivas Kandagatla srinivas.kandagatla at linaro.org
Fri Feb 24 02:36:54 PST 2023



On 24/02/2023 00:43, Elliot Berman wrote:
>>> +/*
>>> + * ioctls for VM fds
>>> + */
>>> +
>>> +/**
>>> + * struct gh_userspace_memory_region - Userspace memory descripion 
>>> for GH_VM_SET_USER_MEM_REGION
>>> + * @label: Unique identifer to the region.
>>> + * @flags: Flags for memory parcel behavior
>>> + * @guest_phys_addr: Location of the memory region in guest's memory 
>>> space (page-aligned)#
>>
>> Note about overlapping here would be useful.
>>
> 
> I'd like to reduce duplicate documentation where possible. I was 
This is exactly what .rst files can provide.

If you have a proper kernel-doc type documentation in header/source 
files, these can be directly used in .rst files.

The reStructuredText (.rst) files may contain directives to include 
structured documentation comments, or kernel-doc comments, from source 
files.

ex:
.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/gunyah.h
    :internal:


--srini
> generally following this procedure:
>   - include/uapi/linux/gunyah.h docstrings have basic information to 
> remind what the field is
>   - Documentation/virt/gunyah/ documentation explains how to properly 
> use the APIs
> 
> I think it's definitely good idea to have separate documentation beyond 
> what can be described in docstrings here.
> 
> Thanks,
> Elliot



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