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-rw-r--r--include/linux/ptrace.h4
-rw-r--r--include/linux/sched.h2
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/ptrace.h b/include/linux/ptrace.h
index 0d36750fc0f..ee918bc6e18 100644
--- a/include/linux/ptrace.h
+++ b/include/linux/ptrace.h
@@ -51,6 +51,10 @@
#ifdef __KERNEL__
/*
* Ptrace flags
+ *
+ * The owner ship rules for task->ptrace which holds the ptrace
+ * flags is simple. When a task is running it owns it's task->ptrace
+ * flags. When the a task is stopped the ptracer owns task->ptrace.
*/
#define PT_PTRACED 0x00000001
diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index 267f1525704..a9d23c7d1b2 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -1225,7 +1225,7 @@ static inline int thread_group_empty(task_t *p)
(thread_group_leader(p) && !thread_group_empty(p))
/*
- * Protects ->fs, ->files, ->mm, ->ptrace, ->group_info, ->comm, keyring
+ * Protects ->fs, ->files, ->mm, ->group_info, ->comm, keyring
* subscriptions and synchronises with wait4(). Also used in procfs. Also
* pins the final release of task.io_context. Also protects ->cpuset.
*