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-rw-r--r--Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl4
-rw-r--r--lib/bitmap.c31
2 files changed, 20 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl
index 31b727ceb12..920aed8465a 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl
@@ -112,6 +112,10 @@ X!Ilib/string.c
<sect1><title>Bit Operations</title>
!Iinclude/asm-i386/bitops.h
</sect1>
+ <sect1><title>Bitmap Operations</title>
+!Elib/bitmap.c
+!Ilib/bitmap.c
+ </sect1>
</chapter>
<chapter id="mm">
diff --git a/lib/bitmap.c b/lib/bitmap.c
index ed2ae3b0cd0..d71e38c54ea 100644
--- a/lib/bitmap.c
+++ b/lib/bitmap.c
@@ -317,16 +317,16 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(bitmap_scnprintf);
/**
* bitmap_parse - convert an ASCII hex string into a bitmap.
- * @buf: pointer to buffer in user space containing string.
- * @buflen: buffer size in bytes. If string is smaller than this
+ * @ubuf: pointer to buffer in user space containing string.
+ * @ubuflen: buffer size in bytes. If string is smaller than this
* then it must be terminated with a \0.
* @maskp: pointer to bitmap array that will contain result.
* @nmaskbits: size of bitmap, in bits.
*
* Commas group hex digits into chunks. Each chunk defines exactly 32
* bits of the resultant bitmask. No chunk may specify a value larger
- * than 32 bits (-EOVERFLOW), and if a chunk specifies a smaller value
- * then leading 0-bits are prepended. -EINVAL is returned for illegal
+ * than 32 bits (%-EOVERFLOW), and if a chunk specifies a smaller value
+ * then leading 0-bits are prepended. %-EINVAL is returned for illegal
* characters and for grouping errors such as "1,,5", ",44", "," and "".
* Leading and trailing whitespace accepted, but not embedded whitespace.
*/
@@ -452,8 +452,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(bitmap_scnlistprintf);
/**
* bitmap_parselist - convert list format ASCII string to bitmap
- * @buf: read nul-terminated user string from this buffer
- * @mask: write resulting mask here
+ * @bp: read nul-terminated user string from this buffer
+ * @maskp: write resulting mask here
* @nmaskbits: number of bits in mask to be written
*
* Input format is a comma-separated list of decimal numbers and
@@ -461,10 +461,11 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(bitmap_scnlistprintf);
* decimal numbers, the smallest and largest bit numbers set in
* the range.
*
- * Returns 0 on success, -errno on invalid input strings:
- * -EINVAL: second number in range smaller than first
- * -EINVAL: invalid character in string
- * -ERANGE: bit number specified too large for mask
+ * Returns 0 on success, -errno on invalid input strings.
+ * Error values:
+ * %-EINVAL: second number in range smaller than first
+ * %-EINVAL: invalid character in string
+ * %-ERANGE: bit number specified too large for mask
*/
int bitmap_parselist(const char *bp, unsigned long *maskp, int nmaskbits)
{
@@ -625,10 +626,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(bitmap_remap);
/**
* bitmap_bitremap - Apply map defined by a pair of bitmaps to a single bit
- * @oldbit - bit position to be mapped
- * @old: defines domain of map
- * @new: defines range of map
- * @bits: number of bits in each of these bitmaps
+ * @oldbit: bit position to be mapped
+ * @old: defines domain of map
+ * @new: defines range of map
+ * @bits: number of bits in each of these bitmaps
*
* Let @old and @new define a mapping of bit positions, such that
* whatever position is held by the n-th set bit in @old is mapped
@@ -790,7 +791,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(bitmap_release_region);
*
* Allocate (set bits in) a specified region of a bitmap.
*
- * Return 0 on success, or -EBUSY if specified region wasn't
+ * Return 0 on success, or %-EBUSY if specified region wasn't
* free (not all bits were zero).
*/
int bitmap_allocate_region(unsigned long *bitmap, int pos, int order)