The patch titled
Subject: kernel-reboot-explicitly-notify-if-halt-occurred-instead-of-power-off-fix
has been added to the -mm mm-nonmm-unstable branch. Its filename is
kernel-reboot-explicitly-notify-if-halt-occurred-instead-of-power-off-fix.patch
This patch will shortly appear at
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/kernel-reboot-explicitly-notify-if-halt-occurred-instead-of-power-off-fix.patch
This patch will later appear in the mm-nonmm-unstable branch at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: kernel-reboot-explicitly-notify-if-halt-occurred-instead-of-power-off-fix
Date: Mon Nov 6 08:22:24 AM PST 2023
tweak comment text
Cc: Dongmin Lee <ldmldm05@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/reboot.c | 7 ++++---
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/kernel/reboot.c~kernel-reboot-explicitly-notify-if-halt-occurred-instead-of-power-off-fix
+++ a/kernel/reboot.c
@@ -59,9 +59,10 @@ struct sys_off_handler {
};
/*
- * This variable is used to indicate if a halt initiated instead when
- * reboot call is invoked with LINUX_REBOOT_CMD_POWER_OFF, but system
- * cannot be powered off. This allowes kernel_halt() to notify that.
+ * This variable is used to indicate if a halt was initiated instead of a
+ * reboot when the reboot call was invoked with LINUX_REBOOT_CMD_POWER_OFF, but
+ * the system cannot be powered off. This allowes kernel_halt() to notify users
+ * of that.
*/
static bool poweroff_fallback_to_halt;
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
mm-shmem-fix-race-in-shmem_undo_range-w-thp-fix.patch
kernel-reboot-explicitly-notify-if-halt-occurred-instead-of-power-off-fix.patch
