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authorTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>2009-08-14 07:41:02 +0200
committerTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>2009-08-14 07:45:31 +0200
commit384be2b18a5f9475eab9ca2bdfa95cc1a04ef59c (patch)
tree04c93f391a1b65c8bf8d7ba8643c07d26c26590a /kernel/kthread.c
parentpercpu: add dummy pcpu_lpage_remapped() for !CONFIG_SMP (diff)
parentpercpu: use the right flag for get_vm_area() (diff)
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Merge branch 'percpu-for-linus' into percpu-for-next
Conflicts: arch/sparc/kernel/smp_64.c arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_counter.c arch/x86/kernel/setup_percpu.c drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_ondemand.c mm/percpu.c Conflicts in core and arch percpu codes are mostly from commit ed78e1e078dd44249f88b1dd8c76dafb39567161 which substituted many num_possible_cpus() with nr_cpu_ids. As for-next branch has moved all the first chunk allocators into mm/percpu.c, the changes are moved from arch code to mm/percpu.c. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/kthread.c')
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1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/kthread.c b/kernel/kthread.c
index 9b1a7de26979..eb8751aa0418 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.