[merged mm-stable] percpu_ref-fix-documentation-of-maximum-value.patch removed from -mm tree

The quilt patch titled
     Subject: percpu_ref: fix documentation of maximum value
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     percpu_ref-fix-documentation-of-maximum-value.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: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <[email protected]>
Subject: percpu_ref: fix documentation of maximum value
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2024 20:40:14 +0000

Tejun changd percpu_ref to use long instead of int back in 2014 but missed
updating this bit of the documentation.  Also add the documentation to the
htmldocs.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
---

 Documentation/driver-api/basics.rst |    3 +++
 include/linux/percpu-refcount.h     |    5 +++--
 lib/percpu-refcount.c               |    2 +-
 3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/Documentation/driver-api/basics.rst~percpu_ref-fix-documentation-of-maximum-value
+++ a/Documentation/driver-api/basics.rst
@@ -90,6 +90,9 @@ Reference counting
 .. kernel-doc:: lib/refcount.c
    :export:
 
+.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/percpu-refcount.h
+.. kernel-doc:: lib/percpu-refcount.c
+
 Atomics
 -------
 
--- a/include/linux/percpu-refcount.h~percpu_ref-fix-documentation-of-maximum-value
+++ a/include/linux/percpu-refcount.h
@@ -12,8 +12,8 @@
  * start shutting down you call percpu_ref_kill() _before_ dropping the initial
  * refcount.
  *
- * The refcount will have a range of 0 to ((1U << 31) - 1), i.e. one bit less
- * than an atomic_t - this is because of the way shutdown works, see
+ * The refcount will have a range of 0 to LONG_MAX, i.e. one bit less
+ * than an atomic_long_t - this is because of the way shutdown works, see
  * percpu_ref_kill()/PERCPU_COUNT_BIAS.
  *
  * Before you call percpu_ref_kill(), percpu_ref_put() does not check for the
@@ -269,6 +269,7 @@ static inline bool percpu_ref_tryget(str
 /**
  * percpu_ref_tryget_live_rcu - same as percpu_ref_tryget_live() but the
  * caller is responsible for taking RCU.
+ * @ref: percpu_ref to try-get
  *
  * This function is safe to call as long as @ref is between init and exit.
  */
--- a/lib/percpu-refcount.c~percpu_ref-fix-documentation-of-maximum-value
+++ a/lib/percpu-refcount.c
@@ -289,7 +289,7 @@ static void __percpu_ref_switch_mode(str
  * @confirm_switch: optional confirmation callback
  *
  * There's no reason to use this function for the usual reference counting.
- * Use percpu_ref_kill[_and_confirm]().
+ * Use percpu_ref_kill() or percpu_ref_kill_and_confirm().
  *
  * Schedule switching of @ref to atomic mode.  All its percpu counts will
  * be collected to the main atomic counter.  On completion, when all CPUs
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from [email protected] are