sched: add kernel doc for the completion, fix kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt

This patch adds kernel doc for the completion feature.

An error in the split-man.pl PERL snippet in kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt is
also fixed.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Diggs <kevdig@hypersurf.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 41 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/completion.h b/include/linux/completion.h
index 02ef8835999c..4a6b604ef7e4 100644
--- a/include/linux/completion.h
+++ b/include/linux/completion.h
@@ -10,6 +10,18 @@
 
 #include <linux/wait.h>
 
+/**
+ * struct completion - structure used to maintain state for a "completion"
+ *
+ * This is the opaque structure used to maintain the state for a "completion".
+ * Completions currently use a FIFO to queue threads that have to wait for
+ * the "completion" event.
+ *
+ * See also:  complete(), wait_for_completion() (and friends _timeout,
+ * _interruptible, _interruptible_timeout, and _killable), init_completion(),
+ * and macros DECLARE_COMPLETION(), DECLARE_COMPLETION_ONSTACK(), and
+ * INIT_COMPLETION().
+ */
 struct completion {
         unsigned int done;
         wait_queue_head_t wait;
@@ -21,6 +33,14 @@ struct completion {
 #define COMPLETION_INITIALIZER_ONSTACK(work) \
         ({ init_completion(&work); work; })
 
+/**
+ * DECLARE_COMPLETION: - declare and initialize a completion structure
+ * @work:  identifier for the completion structure
+ *
+ * This macro declares and initializes a completion structure. Generally used
+ * for static declarations. You should use the _ONSTACK variant for automatic
+ * variables.
+ */
 #define DECLARE_COMPLETION(work) \
         struct completion work = COMPLETION_INITIALIZER(work)
 
@@ -29,6 +49,13 @@ struct completion {
  * completions - so we use the _ONSTACK() variant for those that
  * are on the kernel stack:
  */
+/**
+ * DECLARE_COMPLETION_ONSTACK: - declare and initialize a completion structure
+ * @work:  identifier for the completion structure
+ *
+ * This macro declares and initializes a completion structure on the kernel
+ * stack.
+ */
 #ifdef CONFIG_LOCKDEP
 # define DECLARE_COMPLETION_ONSTACK(work) \
         struct completion work = COMPLETION_INITIALIZER_ONSTACK(work)
@@ -36,6 +63,13 @@ struct completion {
 # define DECLARE_COMPLETION_ONSTACK(work) DECLARE_COMPLETION(work)
 #endif
 
+/**
+ * init_completion: - Initialize a dynamically allocated completion
+ * @x:  completion structure that is to be initialized
+ *
+ * This inline function will initialize a dynamically created completion
+ * structure.
+ */
 static inline void init_completion(struct completion *x)
 {
         x->done = 0;
@@ -55,6 +89,13 @@ extern bool completion_done(struct completion *x);
 extern void complete(struct completion *);
 extern void complete_all(struct completion *);
 
+/**
+ * INIT_COMPLETION: - reinitialize a completion structure
+ * @x:  completion structure to be reinitialized
+ *
+ * This macro should be used to reinitialize a completion structure so it can
+ * be reused. This is especially important after complete_all() is used.
+ */
 #define INIT_COMPLETION(x)      ((x).done = 0)