单行注释应采用/*␣comment␣*/的形式，用空格把界定符和文字分开。多行注释最常见的是这种形式：
/* ␣*␣Multi-line ␣*␣comment ␣*/
也有一些更花哨的形式：
/************ Multi-line comment ************/
或者：
/*************\ * Multi-line * * comment * \*************/
使用注释的场合主要有以下几种。
1、整个源文件的顶部注释。说明此模块的相关信息，例如文件名、作者和版本历史等，顶头写不缩进。例如内核源代码kernel/sched.c的开头：
/* * kernel/sched.c * * Kernel scheduler and related syscalls * * Copyright (C) 1991-2002 Linus Torvalds * * 1996-12-23 Modified by Dave Grothe to fix bugs in semaphores and * make semaphores SMP safe * 1998-11-19 Implemented schedule_timeout() and related stuff * by Andrea Arcangeli * 2002-01-04 New ultra-scalable O(1) scheduler by Ingo Molnar: * hybrid priority-list and round-robin design with * an array-switch method of distributing timeslices * and per-CPU runqueues. Cleanups and useful suggestions * by Davide Libenzi, preemptible kernel bits by Robert Love. * 2003-09-03 Interactivity tuning by Con Kolivas. * 2004-04-02 Scheduler domains code by Nick Piggin */
2、函数注释。说明此函数的功能、参数、返回值、错误码等，写在函数定义上侧，和此函数定义之间不留空行，顶头写不缩进。
3、相对独立的语句组注释。对这一组语句做特别说明，写在语句组上侧，和此语句组之间不留空行，与当前语句组的缩进一致。注意，说明语句组的注释一定要写在语句组上面，不能写在语句组下面。
4、代码行右侧的简短注释。对当前代码行做特别说明，一般为单行注释，和代码之间至少用一个空格隔开，一个源文件中所有的右侧注释最好能上下对齐。尽管例 2.1 “带更多注释的Hello World”讲过注释可以穿插在一行代码中间，但是不建议这么用。内核源代码lib/radix-tree.c中的一个函数包含了上述三种注释：
/**
* radix_tree_insert - insert into a radix tree
* @root: radix tree root
* @index: index key
* @item: item to insert
*
* Insert an item into the radix tree at position @index.
*/
int radix_tree_insert(struct radix_tree_root *root,
unsigned long index, void *item)
{
struct radix_tree_node *node = NULL, *slot;
unsigned int height, shift;
int offset;
int error;
/* Make sure the tree is high enough. */
if ((!index && !root->rnode) ||
index > radix_tree_maxindex(root->height)) {
error = radix_tree_extend(root, index);
if (error)
return error;
}
slot = root->rnode;
height = root->height;
shift = (height-1) * RADIX_TREE_MAP_SHIFT;
offset = 0; /* uninitialised var warning */
do {
if (slot == NULL) {
/* Have to add a child node. */
if (!(slot = radix_tree_node_alloc(root)))
return -ENOMEM;
if (node) {
node->slots[offset] = slot;
node->count++;
} else
root->rnode = slot;
}
/* Go a level down */
offset = (index >> shift) & RADIX_TREE_MAP_MASK;
node = slot;
slot = node->slots[offset];
shift -= RADIX_TREE_MAP_SHIFT;
height--;
} while (height > 0);
if (slot != NULL)
return -EEXIST;
BUG_ON(!node);
node->count++;
node->slots[offset] = item;
BUG_ON(tag_get(node, 0, offset));
BUG_ON(tag_get(node, 1, offset));
return 0;
}[CodingStyle]中特别指出，函数内的注释要尽可能少用。注释只是用来说明你的代码能做什么（比如函数接口定义），而不是说明怎样做的，只要代码写得足够清晰，怎样做是一目了然的，如果你需要用注释才能解释清楚，那就表示你的代码可读性很差，除非是特别需要提醒注意的地方才使用函数内注释。
5、复杂的结构体定义比函数更需要注释。例如内核源代码kernel/sched.c中定义了这样一个结构体：
/*
* This is the main, per-CPU runqueue data structure.
*
* Locking rule: those places that want to lock multiple runqueues
* (such as the load balancing or the thread migration code), lock
* acquire operations must be ordered by ascending &runqueue.
*/
struct runqueue {
spinlock_t lock;
/*
* nr_running and cpu_load should be in the same cacheline because
* remote CPUs use both these fields when doing load calculation.
*/
unsigned long nr_running;
#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
unsigned long cpu_load[3];
#endif
unsigned long long nr_switches;
/*
* This is part of a global counter where only the total sum
* over all CPUs matters. A task can increase this counter on
* one CPU and if it got migrated afterwards it may decrease
* it on another CPU. Always updated under the runqueue lock:
*/
unsigned long nr_uninterruptible;
unsigned long expired_timestamp;
unsigned long long timestamp_last_tick;
task_t *curr, *idle;
struct mm_struct *prev_mm;
prio_array_t *active, *expired, arrays[2];
int best_expired_prio;
atomic_t nr_iowait;
#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
struct sched_domain *sd;
/* For active balancing */
int active_balance;
int push_cpu;
task_t *migration_thread;
struct list_head migration_queue;
int cpu;
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
/* latency stats */
struct sched_info rq_sched_info;
/* sys_sched_yield() stats */
unsigned long yld_exp_empty;
unsigned long yld_act_empty;
unsigned long yld_both_empty;
unsigned long yld_cnt;
/* schedule() stats */
unsigned long sched_switch;
unsigned long sched_cnt;
unsigned long sched_goidle;
/* try_to_wake_up() stats */
unsigned long ttwu_cnt;
unsigned long ttwu_local;
#endif
};6、复杂的宏定义和变量定义也需要注释。例如内核源代码include/linux/jiffies.h中的定义：
/* TICK_USEC_TO_NSEC is the time between ticks in nsec assuming real ACTHZ and */
/* a value TUSEC for TICK_USEC (can be set bij adjtimex) */
#define TICK_USEC_TO_NSEC(TUSEC) (SH_DIV (TUSEC * USER_HZ * 1000, ACTHZ, 8))
/* some arch's have a small-data section that can be accessed register-relative
* but that can only take up to, say, 4-byte variables. jiffies being part of
* an 8-byte variable may not be correctly accessed unless we force the issue
*/
#define __jiffy_data __attribute__((section(".data")))
/*
* The 64-bit value is not volatile - you MUST NOT read it
* without sampling the sequence number in xtime_lock.
* get_jiffies_64() will do this for you as appropriate.
*/
extern u64 __jiffy_data jiffies_64;
extern unsigned long volatile __jiffy_data jiffies;