From: Thomas Weißschuh Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2026 13:11:11 +0000 (+0100) Subject: stop_machine: Fix the documentation for a NULL cpus argument X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=48f7a50c027dd2abb9e7b8a6ecc8e531d87f2c21;p=thirdparty%2Fkernel%2Flinux.git stop_machine: Fix the documentation for a NULL cpus argument A recent refactoring of the kernel-docs for stop machine changed the description of the cpus parameter from "NULL = any online cpu" to "NULL = run on each online CPU". However the callback is only executed on a single CPU, not all of them. The old wording was a bit ambiguous and could have been read both ways. Reword the documentation to be correct again and hopefully also clearer. Fixes: fc6f89dc7078 ("stop_machine: Improve kernel-doc function-header comments") Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Reviewed-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior --- diff --git a/include/linux/stop_machine.h b/include/linux/stop_machine.h index 72820503514cc..01011113d2263 100644 --- a/include/linux/stop_machine.h +++ b/include/linux/stop_machine.h @@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ static inline void print_stop_info(const char *log_lvl, struct task_struct *task * stop_machine: freeze the machine on all CPUs and run this function * @fn: the function to run * @data: the data ptr to pass to @fn() - * @cpus: the cpus to run @fn() on (NULL = run on each online CPU) + * @cpus: the cpus to run @fn() on (NULL = one unspecified online CPU) * * Description: This causes a thread to be scheduled on every CPU, which * will run with interrupts disabled. Each CPU specified by @cpus will @@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ int stop_machine(cpu_stop_fn_t fn, void *data, const struct cpumask *cpus); * stop_machine_cpuslocked: freeze the machine on all CPUs and run this function * @fn: the function to run * @data: the data ptr to pass to @fn() - * @cpus: the cpus to run @fn() on (NULL = run on each online CPU) + * @cpus: the cpus to run @fn() on (NULL = one unspecified online CPU) * * Same as above. Avoids nested calls to cpus_read_lock(). *