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author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-08-29 03:30:41 -0400 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-08-29 03:31:47 -0400 |
commit | eebc57f73d42095b778e899f6aa90ad050c72655 (patch) | |
tree | 2ba80c75e9284093e6d7606dbb1b6a4bb752a2a5 /kernel/kthread.c | |
parent | d3a247bfb2c26f5b67367d58af7ad8c2efbbc6c1 (diff) | |
parent | 2a4ab640d3c28c2952967e5f63ea495555bf2a5f (diff) |
Merge branch 'for-ingo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-sfi-2.6 into x86/apic
Merge reason: the SFI (Simple Firmware Interface) feature in the ACPI
tree needs this cleanup, pull it into the APIC branch as
well so that there's no interactions.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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. |