From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
To: Jon Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Subject: [PATCH] Spell out behavior of atomic_dec_and_lock() in kerneldoc
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 15:59:05 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1207598345-14295-4-git-send-email-bfields@citi.umich.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1207598345-14295-3-git-send-email-bfields@citi.umich.edu>
A little more detail here wouldn't hurt.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
---
include/linux/spinlock.h | 3 +++
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/spinlock.h b/include/linux/spinlock.h
index 576a5f7..1129ee0 100644
--- a/include/linux/spinlock.h
+++ b/include/linux/spinlock.h
@@ -341,6 +341,9 @@ static inline void double_spin_unlock(spinlock_t *l1, spinlock_t *l2,
* atomic_dec_and_lock - lock on reaching reference count zero
* @atomic: the atomic counter
* @lock: the spinlock in question
+ *
+ * Decrements @atomic by 1. If the result is 0, returns true and locks
+ * @lock. Returns false for all other cases.
*/
extern int _atomic_dec_and_lock(atomic_t *atomic, spinlock_t *lock);
#define atomic_dec_and_lock(atomic, lock) \
--
1.5.5.rc1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-07 19:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-07 19:59 miscellaneous documentation patches J. Bruce Fields
2008-04-07 19:59 ` [PATCH] Documentation: move nfsroot.txt to filesystems/ J. Bruce Fields
2008-04-07 19:59 ` [PATCH] Documentation: move rpc-cache.txt " J. Bruce Fields
2008-04-07 19:59 ` J. Bruce Fields [this message]
2008-04-07 20:26 ` miscellaneous documentation patches Jonathan Corbet
2008-04-07 20:31 ` [PATCH] Move sced-rt-group.txt to scheduler/ J. Bruce Fields
2008-04-07 20:39 ` [PATCH] Move sched-rt-group.txt " J. Bruce Fields
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