* [merged mm-stable] xarray-fix-kerneldoc-for-__xa_cmpxchg.patch removed from -mm tree
@ 2025-05-13 6:55 Andrew Morton
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From: Andrew Morton @ 2025-05-13 6:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: mm-commits, willy, hch, akpm
The quilt patch titled
Subject: xarray: fix kerneldoc for __xa_cmpxchg
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
xarray-fix-kerneldoc-for-__xa_cmpxchg.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-stable branch
of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: xarray: fix kerneldoc for __xa_cmpxchg
Date: Wed, 7 May 2025 07:16:20 +0200
Fix the documentation for __xa_cmpxchg to actually describe the
cmpxch-like semantics correctly, based on the version for xa_cmpxchg.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250507051656.3900864-1-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---
lib/xarray.c | 9 ++++++---
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/lib/xarray.c~xarray-fix-kerneldoc-for-__xa_cmpxchg
+++ a/lib/xarray.c
@@ -1742,20 +1742,23 @@ static inline void *__xa_cmpxchg_raw(str
void *old, void *entry, gfp_t gfp);
/**
- * __xa_cmpxchg() - Store this entry in the XArray.
+ * __xa_cmpxchg() - Conditionally replace an entry in the XArray.
* @xa: XArray.
* @index: Index into array.
* @old: Old value to test against.
- * @entry: New entry.
+ * @entry: New value to place in array.
* @gfp: Memory allocation flags.
*
* You must already be holding the xa_lock when calling this function.
* It will drop the lock if needed to allocate memory, and then reacquire
* it afterwards.
*
+ * If the entry at @index is the same as @old, replace it with @entry.
+ * If the return value is equal to @old, then the exchange was successful.
+ *
* Context: Any context. Expects xa_lock to be held on entry. May
* release and reacquire xa_lock if @gfp flags permit.
- * Return: The old entry at this index or xa_err() if an error happened.
+ * Return: The old value at this index or xa_err() if an error happened.
*/
void *__xa_cmpxchg(struct xarray *xa, unsigned long index,
void *old, void *entry, gfp_t gfp)
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from hch@lst.de are
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