From: Oleg Nesterov Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:51:13 +0000 (+0200) Subject: update the comment in kthread_stop() X-Git-Url: https://git.stricted.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9ae260270c90643156cda73427aa1f04c923e627;p=GitHub%2Fexynos8895%2Fandroid_kernel_samsung_universal8895.git update the comment in kthread_stop() Commit 63706172f332fd3f6e7458ebfb35fa6de9c21dc5 ("kthreads: rework kthread_stop()") removed the limitation that the thread function mysr not call do_exit() itself, but forgot to update the comment. Since that commit it is OK to use kthread_stop() even if kthread can exit itself. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- 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.