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authorChengming Zhou <zhouchengming@bytedance.com>2022-05-31 10:04:21 +0800
committerakpm <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2022-06-16 19:48:28 -0700
commitbcc728eb4f446073e0160671d7d0059a4e9aa300 (patch)
tree7e5e876f8e44aa44a567942dc6b19e1d543758a8 /include/linux/damon.h
parent943189db4f3ed1445dd630dc0b96e115357c4330 (diff)
mm/damon: remove obsolete comments of kdamond_stop
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@bytedance.com Signed-off-by: Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@bytedance.com> Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/damon.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/damon.h17
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/damon.h b/include/linux/damon.h
index 7c62da31ce4b..2765c7d99beb 100644
--- a/include/linux/damon.h
+++ b/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.
- *
- * Note that the monitoring thread protects only @kdamond and @kdamond_stop via
- * @kdamond_lock. Accesses to other fields must be protected by themselves.
+ * 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 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.