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| author |   Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-08-11 14:19:09 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-08-11 14:19:09 +0200 |
| commit | 89034bc2c7b839702c00a704e79d112737f98be0 (patch) | |
| tree | e65b1f3d4c751baa840efc81bc4734f089379eb3 /kernel/kthread.c | |
| parent | tracing/filters: Don't use pred on alloc failure (diff) | |
| parent | pty: fix data loss when stopped (^S/^Q) (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.c | 10 |
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. |