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author | Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> | 2009-09-08 17:55:54 -0700 |
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committer | Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> | 2009-09-08 17:55:54 -0700 |
commit | 9134d02bc0af4a8747d448d1f811ec5f8eb96df6 (patch) | |
tree | 704c3e5dcc10f360815c4868a74711f82fb62e27 /kernel/kthread.c | |
parent | bbb20089a3275a19e475dbc21320c3742e3ca423 (diff) | |
parent | 80ffb3cceaefa405f2ecd46d66500ed8d53efe74 (diff) |
Merge commit 'md/for-linus' into async-tx-next
Conflicts:
drivers/md/raid5.c
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. |