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author | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2009-08-12 20:44:53 -0400 |
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committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2009-08-12 20:44:53 -0400 |
commit | aa11d958d1a6572eda08214d7c6a735804fe48a5 (patch) | |
tree | d025b05270ad1e010660d17eeadc6ac3c1abbd7d /kernel/kthread.c | |
parent | 07f6642ee9418e962e54cbc07471cfe2e559c568 (diff) | |
parent | 9799218ae36910af50f002a5db1802d576fffb43 (diff) |
Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
arch/microblaze/include/asm/socket.h
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 9b1a7de26979..eb8751aa0418 100644 --- a/kernel/kthread.c +++ b/kernel/kthread.c | |||
@@ -180,10 +180,12 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(kthread_bind); | |||
180 | * @k: thread created by kthread_create(). | 180 | * @k: thread created by kthread_create(). |
181 | * | 181 | * |
182 | * Sets kthread_should_stop() for @k to return true, wakes it, and | 182 | * Sets kthread_should_stop() for @k to return true, wakes it, and |
183 | * waits for it to exit. Your threadfn() must not call do_exit() | 183 | * waits for it to exit. This can also be called after kthread_create() |
184 | * itself if you use this function! This can also be called after | 184 | * instead of calling wake_up_process(): the thread will exit without |
185 | * kthread_create() instead of calling wake_up_process(): the thread | 185 | * calling threadfn(). |
186 | * will exit without calling threadfn(). | 186 | * |
187 | * If threadfn() may call do_exit() itself, the caller must ensure | ||
188 | * task_struct can't go away. | ||
187 | * | 189 | * |
188 | * Returns the result of threadfn(), or %-EINTR if wake_up_process() | 190 | * Returns the result of threadfn(), or %-EINTR if wake_up_process() |
189 | * was never called. | 191 | * was never called. |