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author | J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> | 2009-08-21 11:27:29 -0400 |
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committer | J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> | 2009-08-21 11:27:29 -0400 |
commit | e9dc122166b8d863d3057a66ada04838e5548e52 (patch) | |
tree | 749e15bf719b64bf9113db7acd8e043d9742cb26 /kernel/kthread.c | |
parent | 560ab42ef923aaf2e4347315bdfcc74b2708972c (diff) | |
parent | 405d8f8b1d936414da2093d4149ff790ff3f84a5 (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'nfs-for-2.6.32' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6 into for-2.6.32-incoming
Conflicts:
net/sunrpc/cache.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 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. |