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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-08-04 13:58:28 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-08-04 13:58:28 +0200
commite16852cfc5580b88cb327413ab8c89375f380592 (patch)
tree67e7d5b84e2602986f2da689625e5a25d7af7bb4 /kernel/kthread.c
parentbdff78707f3ce47e891f3201c9666122a70556ce (diff)
parent74e7ff8c50b6b022e6ffaa736b16a4dc161d3eaf (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.c10
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.