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| author | Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> | 2012-01-13 15:00:22 +0000 |
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| committer | Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> | 2012-01-13 15:00:22 +0000 |
| commit | 4de3a8e101150feaefa1139611a50ff37467f33e (patch) | |
| tree | daada742542518b02d7db7c5d32e715eaa5f166d /kernel/pid.c | |
| parent | 294064f58953f9964e5945424b09c51800330a83 (diff) | |
| parent | 099469502f62fbe0d7e4f0b83a2f22538367f734 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'master' into fixes
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/pid.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/pid.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/pid.c b/kernel/pid.c index fa5f72227e5..ce8e00deacc 100644 --- a/kernel/pid.c +++ b/kernel/pid.c @@ -137,7 +137,9 @@ static int pid_before(int base, int a, int b) } /* - * We might be racing with someone else trying to set pid_ns->last_pid. + * We might be racing with someone else trying to set pid_ns->last_pid + * at the pid allocation time (there's also a sysctl for this, but racing + * with this one is OK, see comment in kernel/pid_namespace.c about it). * We want the winner to have the "later" value, because if the * "earlier" value prevails, then a pid may get reused immediately. * |