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Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/kthread.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/kthread.c | 14 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/kthread.c b/kernel/kthread.c index 544fd4097406..3c677918d8f2 100644 --- a/kernel/kthread.c +++ b/kernel/kthread.c @@ -340,7 +340,7 @@ static int kthread(void *_create) self = to_kthread(current); - /* If user was SIGKILLed, I release the structure. */ + /* Release the structure when caller killed by a fatal signal. */ done = xchg(&create->done, NULL); if (!done) { kfree(create); @@ -398,7 +398,7 @@ static void create_kthread(struct kthread_create_info *create) /* We want our own signal handler (we take no signals by default). */ pid = kernel_thread(kthread, create, CLONE_FS | CLONE_FILES | SIGCHLD); if (pid < 0) { - /* If user was SIGKILLed, I release the structure. */ + /* Release the structure when caller killed by a fatal signal. */ struct completion *done = xchg(&create->done, NULL); if (!done) { @@ -440,9 +440,9 @@ struct task_struct *__kthread_create_on_node(int (*threadfn)(void *data), */ if (unlikely(wait_for_completion_killable(&done))) { /* - * If I was SIGKILLed before kthreadd (or new kernel thread) - * calls complete(), leave the cleanup of this structure to - * that thread. + * If I was killed by a fatal signal before kthreadd (or new + * kernel thread) calls complete(), leave the cleanup of this + * structure to that thread. */ if (xchg(&create->done, NULL)) return ERR_PTR(-EINTR); @@ -876,7 +876,7 @@ fail_task: * * Returns a pointer to the allocated worker on success, ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM) * when the needed structures could not get allocated, and ERR_PTR(-EINTR) - * when the worker was SIGKILLed. + * when the caller was killed by a fatal signal. */ struct kthread_worker * kthread_create_worker(unsigned int flags, const char namefmt[], ...) @@ -925,7 +925,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(kthread_create_worker); * Return: * The pointer to the allocated worker on success, ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM) * when the needed structures could not get allocated, and ERR_PTR(-EINTR) - * when the worker was SIGKILLed. + * when the caller was killed by a fatal signal. */ struct kthread_worker * kthread_create_worker_on_cpu(int cpu, unsigned int flags, |