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author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-08-31 17:54:18 +0200 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-08-31 18:05:25 +0200 |
commit | bbe69aa57a7374b51242b95a54eefcf0d0393b7e (patch) | |
tree | c45e48d11cc9cb81a57c8c27f7243863b117cec8 /kernel/kthread.c | |
parent | a417887637e862b434b293404f2a31ad1f282a58 (diff) | |
parent | 326ba5010a5429a5a528b268b36a5900d4ab0eba (diff) |
Merge commit 'v2.6.31-rc8' into core/locking
Merge reason: we were on -rc4, move to -rc8 before applying
a new batch of locking infrastructure changes.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/kthread.c')
-rw-r--r-- | kernel/kthread.c | 10 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/kthread.c b/kernel/kthread.c index 9b1a7de2697..eb8751aa041 100644 --- a/kernel/kthread.c +++ b/kernel/kthread.c @@ -180,10 +180,12 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(kthread_bind); * @k: thread created by kthread_create(). * * Sets kthread_should_stop() for @k to return true, wakes it, and - * waits for it to exit. Your threadfn() must not call do_exit() - * itself if you use this function! This can also be called after - * kthread_create() instead of calling wake_up_process(): the thread - * will exit without calling threadfn(). + * waits for it to exit. This can also be called after kthread_create() + * instead of calling wake_up_process(): the thread will exit without + * calling threadfn(). + * + * If threadfn() may call do_exit() itself, the caller must ensure + * task_struct can't go away. * * Returns the result of threadfn(), or %-EINTR if wake_up_process() * was never called. |