[PATCH] locking: mutex: Fix brackets in comments

From: Manuel Ebner

Date: Wed Sep 09 2026 - 10:19:28 EST


Remove needless '(' from sentence and add missing ')' to example code
Add whitespace to "CPU 1 CPU2"
-> "CPU 1 CPU 2"

Signed-off-by: Manuel Ebner <manuelebnerli@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/locking/mutex.c | 2 +-
kernel/locking/rtmutex.c | 6 +++---
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/locking/mutex.c b/kernel/locking/mutex.c
index 942a939ce..5636ad9f4 100644
--- a/kernel/locking/mutex.c
+++ b/kernel/locking/mutex.c
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
* Many thanks to Arjan van de Ven, Thomas Gleixner, Steven Rostedt and
* David Howells for suggestions and improvements.
*
- * - Adaptive spinning for mutexes by Peter Zijlstra. (Ported to mainline
+ * - Adaptive spinning for mutexes by Peter Zijlstra. Ported to mainline
* from the -rt tree, where it was originally implemented for rtmutexes
* by Steven Rostedt, based on work by Gregory Haskins, Peter Morreale
* and Sven Dietrich.
diff --git a/kernel/locking/rtmutex.c b/kernel/locking/rtmutex.c
index 5a9534c71..3947bdc2b 100644
--- a/kernel/locking/rtmutex.c
+++ b/kernel/locking/rtmutex.c
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ fixup_rt_mutex_waiters(struct rt_mutex_base *lock, bool acquire_lock)
* lock->owner still has the waiters bit set, otherwise the
* following can happen:
*
- * CPU 0 CPU 1 CPU2
+ * CPU 0 CPU 1 CPU 2
* l->owner=T1
* rt_mutex_lock(l)
* lock(l->lock)
@@ -172,14 +172,14 @@ fixup_rt_mutex_waiters(struct rt_mutex_base *lock, bool acquire_lock)
* unlock(l->lock)
* lock(l->lock)
* fixup_rt_mutex_waiters()
- * if (wait_list_empty(l) {
+ * if (wait_list_empty(l)) {
* l->owner = owner
* owner = l->owner & ~HAS_WAITERS;
* ==> l->owner = T1
* }
* lock(l->lock)
* rt_mutex_unlock(l) fixup_rt_mutex_waiters()
- * if (wait_list_empty(l) {
+ * if (wait_list_empty(l)) {
* owner = l->owner & ~HAS_WAITERS;
* cmpxchg(l->owner, T1, NULL)
* ===> Success (l->owner = NULL)
--
2.54.0