Merge branch 'docs' of git://git.lwn.net/linux-2.6

* 'docs' of git://git.lwn.net/linux-2.6:
  Add additional examples in Documentation/spinlocks.txt
  Move sched-rt-group.txt to scheduler/
  Documentation: move rpc-cache.txt to filesystems/
  Documentation: move nfsroot.txt to filesystems/
  Spell out behavior of atomic_dec_and_lock() in kerneldoc
  Fix a typo in highres.txt
  Fixes to the seq_file document
  Fill out information on patch tags in SubmittingPatches
  Add the seq_file documentation

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/spinlock.h b/include/linux/spinlock.h
index 576a5f77d3bd..1129ee0a7180 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) \