Re: [PATCH v2] locking/atomic: scripts: fix ${atomic}_sub_and_test() kerneldoc

From: Mark Rutland
Date: Thu May 16 2024 - 06:03:19 EST


On Thu, May 16, 2024 at 11:49:20AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, May 16, 2024 at 10:53:10AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Thu, May 16, 2024 at 10:45:58AM +0200, Mark Rutland wrote:
> > > On Wed, May 15, 2024 at 01:37:10PM +0000, Carlos Llamas wrote:
> > > > For ${atomic}_sub_and_test() the @i parameter is the value to subtract,
> > > > not add. Fix the typo in the kerneldoc template and generate the headers
> > > > with this update.
> > > >
> > > > Fixes: ad8110706f38 ("locking/atomic: scripts: generate kerneldoc comments")
> > > > Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
> > > > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > > Suggested-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
> > > > Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > Signed-off-by: Carlos Llamas <cmllamas@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > ---
> > > >
> > > > Notes:
> > > > v2: fix kerneldoc template instead, as pointed out by Mark
> > >
> > > Thanks for this!
> > >
> > > Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > Peter, Ingo, are you happy to queue this up in the tip tree?
> >
> > Yep can do. I'll sit on it until after the merge window though.
>
> Also, do we really want this in stable? It's just a silly doc change.

I think that we do, so that when people look at the generated docs for
stable kernels they see the right thing.

It *should* be a trivial backport, anyhow.

Mark.