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authorLibin <huawei.libin@huawei.com>2013-08-21 08:50:40 +0800
committerTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>2013-08-21 10:32:09 -0400
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workqueue: Fix manage_workers() RETURNS description
No functional change. The comment of function manage_workers() RETURNS description is obvious wrong, same as the CONTEXT. Fix it. Signed-off-by: Libin <huawei.libin@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c
index eebd9a66c044..10f655ec8de6 100644
--- a/kernel/workqueue.c
+++ b/kernel/workqueue.c
@@ -2034,8 +2034,11 @@ static bool maybe_destroy_workers(struct worker_pool *pool)
* multiple times. Does GFP_KERNEL allocations.
*
* RETURNS:
- * spin_lock_irq(pool->lock) which may be released and regrabbed
- * multiple times. Does GFP_KERNEL allocations.
+ * %false if the pool don't need management and the caller can safely start
+ * processing works, %true indicates that the function released pool->lock
+ * and reacquired it to perform some management function and that the
+ * conditions that the caller verified while holding the lock before
+ * calling the function might no longer be true.
*/
static bool manage_workers(struct worker *worker)
{