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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-09-02 08:17:56 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-09-02 08:17:56 +0200
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Merge commit 'v2.6.31-rc8' into x86/txt
Conflicts: arch/x86/kernel/reboot.c security/Kconfig Merge reason: resolve the conflicts, bump up from rc3 to rc8. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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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.