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author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-08-04 13:58:28 +0200 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-08-04 13:58:28 +0200 |
commit | e16852cfc5580b88cb327413ab8c89375f380592 (patch) | |
tree | 67e7d5b84e2602986f2da689625e5a25d7af7bb4 /kernel/kthread.c | |
parent | bdff78707f3ce47e891f3201c9666122a70556ce (diff) | |
parent | 74e7ff8c50b6b022e6ffaa736b16a4dc161d3eaf (diff) |
Merge branch 'tracing/fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/random-tracing into tracing/urgent
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. |