From 0b90fec3b990b50d77944bc73c1ba4b031dfa52f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alex Elder Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2014 16:09:03 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] printk: fix some comments Fix a few comments that don't accurately describe their corresponding code. It also fixes some minor typographical errors. Signed-off-by: Alex Elder Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Jan Kara Cc: John Stultz Cc: Steven Rostedt Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/printk/printk.c | 23 ++++++++++++----------- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/printk/printk.c b/kernel/printk/printk.c index 770ed4821ba9..4bae344c1ec3 100644 --- a/kernel/printk/printk.c +++ b/kernel/printk/printk.c @@ -113,9 +113,9 @@ static int __down_trylock_console_sem(unsigned long ip) * This is used for debugging the mess that is the VT code by * keeping track if we have the console semaphore held. It's * definitely not the perfect debug tool (we don't know if _WE_ - * hold it are racing, but it helps tracking those weird code - * path in the console code where we end up in places I want - * locked without the console sempahore held + * hold it and are racing, but it helps tracking those weird code + * paths in the console code where we end up in places I want + * locked without the console sempahore held). */ static int console_locked, console_suspended; @@ -146,8 +146,8 @@ static int console_may_schedule; * the overall length of the record. * * The heads to the first and last entry in the buffer, as well as the - * sequence numbers of these both entries are maintained when messages - * are stored.. + * sequence numbers of these entries are maintained when messages are + * stored. * * If the heads indicate available messages, the length in the header * tells the start next message. A length == 0 for the next message @@ -345,7 +345,7 @@ static int log_make_free_space(u32 msg_size) while (log_first_seq < log_next_seq) { if (logbuf_has_space(msg_size, false)) return 0; - /* drop old messages until we have enough continuous space */ + /* drop old messages until we have enough contiguous space */ log_first_idx = log_next(log_first_idx); log_first_seq++; } @@ -1517,7 +1517,7 @@ static struct cont { struct task_struct *owner; /* task of first print*/ u64 ts_nsec; /* time of first print */ u8 level; /* log level of first message */ - u8 facility; /* log level of first message */ + u8 facility; /* log facility of first message */ enum log_flags flags; /* prefix, newline flags */ bool flushed:1; /* buffer sealed and committed */ } cont; @@ -1922,11 +1922,12 @@ static int __add_preferred_console(char *name, int idx, char *options, return 0; } /* - * Set up a list of consoles. Called from init/main.c + * Set up a console. Called via do_early_param() in init/main.c + * for each "console=" parameter in the boot command line. */ static int __init console_setup(char *str) { - char buf[sizeof(console_cmdline[0].name) + 4]; /* 4 for index */ + char buf[sizeof(console_cmdline[0].name) + 4]; /* 4 for "ttyS" */ char *s, *options, *brl_options = NULL; int idx; @@ -2086,8 +2087,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(console_lock); /** * console_trylock - try to lock the console system for exclusive use. * - * Tried to acquire a lock which guarantees that the caller has - * exclusive access to the console system and the console_drivers list. + * Try to acquire a lock which guarantees that the caller has exclusive + * access to the console system and the console_drivers list. * * returns 1 on success, and 0 on failure to acquire the lock. */