diff --git a/components/style/gecko/restyle_damage.rs b/components/style/gecko/restyle_damage.rs
index a1c7fc2c4e9..074259920cd 100644
--- a/components/style/gecko/restyle_damage.rs
+++ b/components/style/gecko/restyle_damage.rs
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
  * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
  * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. */
 
+//! Gecko's restyle damage computation (aka change hints, aka `nsChangeHint`).
+
 use gecko_bindings::bindings;
 use gecko_bindings::structs;
 use gecko_bindings::structs::{nsChangeHint, nsStyleContext};
@@ -10,28 +12,42 @@ use properties::ComputedValues;
 use std::ops::{BitOr, BitOrAssign};
 use std::sync::Arc;
 
+/// The representation of Gecko's restyle damage is just a wrapper over
+/// `nsChangeHint`.
 #[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug, PartialEq)]
 pub struct GeckoRestyleDamage(nsChangeHint);
 
 impl GeckoRestyleDamage {
+    /// Trivially construct a new `GeckoRestyleDamage`.
     pub fn new(raw: nsChangeHint) -> Self {
         GeckoRestyleDamage(raw)
     }
 
+    /// Get the inner change hint for this damage.
     pub fn as_change_hint(&self) -> nsChangeHint {
         self.0
     }
 
+    /// Get an empty change hint, that is (`nsChangeHint(0)`).
     pub fn empty() -> Self {
         GeckoRestyleDamage(nsChangeHint(0))
     }
 
+    /// Returns whether this restyle damage represents the empty damage.
     pub fn is_empty(&self) -> bool {
         self.0 == nsChangeHint(0)
     }
 
+    /// Computes a change hint given an old style (in the form of a
+    /// `nsStyleContext`, and a new style (in the form of `ComputedValues`).
+    ///
+    /// Note that we could in theory just get two `ComputedValues` here and diff
+    /// them, but Gecko has an interesting optimization when they mark accessed
+    /// structs, so they effectively only diff structs that have ever been
+    /// accessed from layout.
     pub fn compute(source: &nsStyleContext,
                    new_style: &Arc<ComputedValues>) -> Self {
+        // TODO(emilio): Const-ify this?
         let context = source as *const nsStyleContext as *mut nsStyleContext;
         let hint = unsafe {
             bindings::Gecko_CalcStyleDifference(context,
@@ -40,6 +56,8 @@ impl GeckoRestyleDamage {
         GeckoRestyleDamage(hint)
     }
 
+    /// Get a restyle damage that represents the maximum action to be taken
+    /// (rebuild and reflow).
     pub fn rebuild_and_reflow() -> Self {
         GeckoRestyleDamage(structs::nsChangeHint_nsChangeHint_ReconstructFrame)
     }