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| author | H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> | 2012-01-19 12:56:50 -0800 |
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| committer | H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> | 2012-01-19 12:56:50 -0800 |
| commit | 282f445a779ed76fca9884fe377bf56a3088b208 (patch) | |
| tree | d9abcf526baee0100672851e0a8894c19e762a39 /kernel/pid.c | |
| parent | 68f30fbee19cc67849b9fa8e153ede70758afe81 (diff) | |
| parent | 90a4c0f51e8e44111a926be6f4c87af3938a79c3 (diff) | |
Merge remote-tracking branch 'linus/master' into x86/urgent
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/pid.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/pid.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/pid.c b/kernel/pid.c index fa5f72227e5f..ce8e00deaccb 100644 --- a/kernel/pid.c +++ b/kernel/pid.c @@ -137,7 +137,9 @@ static int pid_before(int base, int a, int b) } /* - * We might be racing with someone else trying to set pid_ns->last_pid. + * We might be racing with someone else trying to set pid_ns->last_pid + * at the pid allocation time (there's also a sysctl for this, but racing + * with this one is OK, see comment in kernel/pid_namespace.c about it). * We want the winner to have the "later" value, because if the * "earlier" value prevails, then a pid may get reused immediately. * |