[PATCH] stop_machine: Fix the documentation for a NULL cpus argument

From: Paul E. McKenney

Date: Fri Mar 20 2026 - 06:43:17 EST


[ For the v7.1 merge window. ]

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 <thomas.weissschuh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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().
*