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authorDave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>2009-08-20 13:38:04 +1000
committerDave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>2009-08-20 13:38:04 +1000
commit51c8b4071d84d46cc100baa5931ad06b2a823c95 (patch)
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Merge Linus master to drm-next
linux-next conflict reported needed resolution. Conflicts: drivers/gpu/drm/drm_crtc.c drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid.c drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_sdvo.c drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_ttm.c drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_bo.c
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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);
* @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.
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