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authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2009-08-14 15:59:00 +0200
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2009-08-14 15:59:30 +0200
commit4cd1993f0046fbc765dbf20af90966f5661e3789 (patch)
tree8772c03b73159524183f08337b134503ddf8479e /kernel/kthread.c
parent97fd9ed48ce2b807edc363bef3e817aeeb5cd5e6 (diff)
parent64f1607ffbbc772685733ea63e6f7f4183df1b16 (diff)
Merge branch 'linus' into timers/core
Reason: Martin's timekeeping cleanup series depends on both timers/core and mainline changes. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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.