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authorDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2009-08-12 17:44:53 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2009-08-12 17:44:53 -0700
commitaa11d958d1a6572eda08214d7c6a735804fe48a5 (patch)
treed025b05270ad1e010660d17eeadc6ac3c1abbd7d /kernel/kthread.c
parent07f6642ee9418e962e54cbc07471cfe2e559c568 (diff)
parent9799218ae36910af50f002a5db1802d576fffb43 (diff)
Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts: arch/microblaze/include/asm/socket.h
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.