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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-08-11 14:19:09 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-08-11 14:19:09 +0200
commit89034bc2c7b839702c00a704e79d112737f98be0 (patch)
treee65b1f3d4c751baa840efc81bc4734f089379eb3 /kernel/kthread.c
parentfb82ad719831db58e9baa4c67015aae3fe27e7e3 (diff)
parent85dfd81dc57e8183a277ddd7a56aa65c96f3f487 (diff)
Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/core
Conflicts: kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c We use the tracing/core version. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/kthread.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/kthread.c10
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/kthread.c b/kernel/kthread.c
index 9b1a7de26979..eb8751aa0418 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.