kthread: make it clear that kthread_create_on_node() might be terminated by any fatal...

[linux-block.git] / kernel / kthread.c

diff --git a/kernel/kthread.c b/kernel/kthread.c
index 544fd4097406892d9280b9acb37303e231d0b141..3c677918d8f2fece96a252343139a0671d29e180 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/kthread.c
+++ b/kernel/kthread.c
@@ -340,7 +340,7 @@ static int kthread(void *_create)
 
        self = to_kthread(current);
 
-       /* If user was SIGKILLed, I release the structure. */
+       /* Release the structure when caller killed by a fatal signal. */
        done = xchg(&create->done, NULL);
        if (!done) {
                kfree(create);
@@ -398,7 +398,7 @@ static void create_kthread(struct kthread_create_info *create)
        /* We want our own signal handler (we take no signals by default). */
        pid = kernel_thread(kthread, create, CLONE_FS | CLONE_FILES | SIGCHLD);
        if (pid < 0) {
-               /* If user was SIGKILLed, I release the structure. */
+               /* Release the structure when caller killed by a fatal signal. */
                struct completion *done = xchg(&create->done, NULL);
 
                if (!done) {
@@ -440,9 +440,9 @@ struct task_struct *__kthread_create_on_node(int (*threadfn)(void *data),
         */
        if (unlikely(wait_for_completion_killable(&done))) {
                /*
-                * If I was SIGKILLed before kthreadd (or new kernel thread)
-                * calls complete(), leave the cleanup of this structure to
-                * that thread.
+                * If I was killed by a fatal signal before kthreadd (or new
+                * kernel thread) calls complete(), leave the cleanup of this
+                * structure to that thread.
                 */
                if (xchg(&create->done, NULL))
                        return ERR_PTR(-EINTR);
@@ -876,7 +876,7 @@ fail_task:
  *
  * Returns a pointer to the allocated worker on success, ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM)
  * when the needed structures could not get allocated, and ERR_PTR(-EINTR)
- * when the worker was SIGKILLed.
+ * when the caller was killed by a fatal signal.
  */
 struct kthread_worker *
 kthread_create_worker(unsigned int flags, const char namefmt[], ...)
@@ -925,7 +925,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(kthread_create_worker);
  * Return:
  * The pointer to the allocated worker on success, ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM)
  * when the needed structures could not get allocated, and ERR_PTR(-EINTR)
- * when the worker was SIGKILLed.
+ * when the caller was killed by a fatal signal.
  */
 struct kthread_worker *
 kthread_create_worker_on_cpu(int cpu, unsigned int flags,