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authorRussell King <rmk@dyn-67.arm.linux.org.uk>2009-09-12 12:02:26 +0100
committerRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>2009-09-12 12:02:26 +0100
commitddd559b13f6d2fe3ad68c4b3f5235fd3c2eae4e3 (patch)
treed827bca3fc825a0ac33efbcd493713be40fcc812 /kernel/kthread.c
parentcf7a2b4fb6a9b86779930a0a123b0df41aa9208f (diff)
parentf17a1f06d2fa93f4825be572622eb02c4894db4e (diff)
downloadlinux-ddd559b13f6d2fe3ad68c4b3f5235fd3c2eae4e3.tar.bz2
Merge branch 'devel-stable' into devel
Conflicts: MAINTAINERS arch/arm/mm/fault.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.