Commit a2c7a983 authored by Ingo Molnar's avatar Ingo Molnar Committed by Daniel Borkmann

x86/bpf: Clean up non-standard comments, to make the code more readable

So by chance I looked into x86 assembly in arch/x86/net/bpf_jit_comp.c and
noticed the weird and inconsistent comment style it mistakenly learned from
the networking code:

 /* Multi-line comment ...
  * ... looks like this.
  */

Fix this to use the standard comment style specified in Documentation/CodingStyle
and used in arch/x86/ as well:

 /*
  * Multi-line comment ...
  * ... looks like this.
  */

Also, to quote Linus's ... more explicit views about this:

  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.cryptoapi/21066

  > But no, the networking code picked *none* of the above sane formats.
  > Instead, it picked these two models that are just half-arsed
  > shit-for-brains:
  >
  >  (no)
  >      /* This is disgusting drug-induced
  >        * crap, and should die
  >        */
  >
  >   (no-no-no)
  >       /* This is also very nasty
  >        * and visually unbalanced */
  >
  > Please. The networking code actually has the *worst* possible comment
  > style. You can literally find that (no-no-no) style, which is just
  > really horribly disgusting and worse than the otherwise fairly similar
  > (d) in pretty much every way.

Also improve the comments and some other details while at it:

 - Don't mix same-line and previous-line comment style on otherwise
   identical code patterns within the same function,

 - capitalize 'BPF' and x86 register names consistently,

 - capitalize sentences consistently,

 - instead of 'x64' use 'x86-64': x64 is a Microsoft specific term,

 - use more consistent punctuation,

 - use standard coding style in macros as well,

 - fix typos and a few other minor details.

Consistent coding style is not optional, at least in arch/x86/.

No change in functionality.

( In case this commit causes conflicts with pending development code
  I'll be glad to help resolve any conflicts! )
Acked-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@fb.com>
Cc: Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDaniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
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