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| author | Russell King <rmk@dyn-67.arm.linux.org.uk> | 2009-07-30 10:47:55 +0100 |
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| committer | Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> | 2009-07-30 10:47:55 +0100 |
| commit | 0a52ac8d181e938d640c2da70cad6d1301abe775 (patch) | |
| tree | 046edf3437a49d3f6989d152bd94fcc80906b86d /kernel/kthread.c | |
| parent | e81b795d44ba04beab7714de65ed2e377823bd37 (diff) | |
| parent | 9b71de49b030ad8fd4d13d38571b5c42dc9ed8dd (diff) | |
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Merge branch 's3c-fixes-rc4' of git://aeryn.fluff.org.uk/bjdooks/linux
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. |