Commit dc07e721 authored by J. Bruce Fields's avatar J. Bruce Fields Committed by Jonathan Corbet

Spell out behavior of atomic_dec_and_lock() in kerneldoc

A little more detail here wouldn't hurt.
Signed-off-by: default avatarJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
parent b40b5162
......@@ -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) \
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