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author | H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> | 2009-08-26 17:17:51 -0700 |
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committer | H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> | 2009-08-26 17:24:28 -0700 |
commit | b855192c08fcb14adbc5d3a7cab182022d433cca (patch) | |
tree | 3a10cafbfbf98cafacf667eb218c71300b351bfa /kernel/kthread.c | |
parent | d886c73cd4cf02a71e1650cbcb6176799d78aac1 (diff) | |
parent | 3e0e1e9c5a327d4dba8490d83ef55c0564e6e8a7 (diff) |
Merge branch 'x86/urgent' into x86/pat
Reason: Change to is_new_memtype_allowed() in x86/urgent
Resolved semantic conflicts in:
arch/x86/mm/pat.c
arch/x86/mm/ioremap.c
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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 9b1a7de2697..eb8751aa041 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. |