From dc07e721a26ec7e0adb66340f1763d220cfbbd0c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 15:59:05 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Spell out behavior of atomic_dec_and_lock() in kerneldoc

A little more detail here wouldn't hurt.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
---
 include/linux/spinlock.h | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/spinlock.h b/include/linux/spinlock.h
index 576a5f77d3b..1129ee0a718 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) \
-- 
2.20.1