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| author | Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> | 2005-05-05 16:16:12 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org> | 2005-05-05 16:36:48 -0700 |
| commit | 3677209239ed71d2654e73eecfab1dbec2af11a9 (patch) | |
| tree | 125d9d7553c5f6dc6ad030e4c829a5bf71ab3ef5 /include/linux | |
| parent | 291c4a75ce7632ee5c565359fb875ba0597f76be (diff) | |
[PATCH] comments on locking of task->comm
Add some comments about task->comm, to explain what it is near its definition
and provide some important pointers to its uses.
Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/sched.h | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h index 5f868a58858..4dbb109022f 100644 --- a/include/linux/sched.h +++ b/include/linux/sched.h @@ -578,7 +578,7 @@ struct task_struct { unsigned long flags; /* per process flags, defined below */ unsigned long ptrace; - int lock_depth; /* Lock depth */ + int lock_depth; /* BKL lock depth */ int prio, static_prio; struct list_head run_list; @@ -661,7 +661,10 @@ struct task_struct { struct key *thread_keyring; /* keyring private to this thread */ #endif int oomkilladj; /* OOM kill score adjustment (bit shift). */ - char comm[TASK_COMM_LEN]; + char comm[TASK_COMM_LEN]; /* executable name excluding path + - access with [gs]et_task_comm (which lock + it with task_lock()) + - initialized normally by flush_old_exec */ /* file system info */ int link_count, total_link_count; /* ipc stuff */ |