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authorFlorian Tobias Schandinat <FlorianSchandinat@gmx.de>2012-01-28 19:52:40 +0000
committerFlorian Tobias Schandinat <FlorianSchandinat@gmx.de>2012-01-28 19:52:40 +0000
commitb20f86625de738658c74f2ecfe4050416d2252cc (patch)
treeb84216b70bd923409217834a953f983700e39eda /kernel/pid.c
parent9f1065032ceb7e86c7c9f16bb86518857e88a172 (diff)
parentdcd6c92267155e70a94b3927bce681ce74b80d1f (diff)
Merge commit 'v3.3-rc1' into fbdev-next
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/pid.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/pid.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/pid.c b/kernel/pid.c
index fa5f72227e5..ce8e00deacc 100644
--- a/kernel/pid.c
+++ b/kernel/pid.c
@@ -137,7 +137,9 @@ static int pid_before(int base, int a, int b)
}
/*
- * We might be racing with someone else trying to set pid_ns->last_pid.
+ * We might be racing with someone else trying to set pid_ns->last_pid
+ * at the pid allocation time (there's also a sysctl for this, but racing
+ * with this one is OK, see comment in kernel/pid_namespace.c about it).
* We want the winner to have the "later" value, because if the
* "earlier" value prevails, then a pid may get reused immediately.
*