Merge branch 'for-3.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq

Pull workqueue updates from Tejun Heo:
 "Nothing interesting.  All are doc / comment updates"

* 'for-3.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq:
  workqueue: Correct/Drop references to gcwq in Documentation
  workqueue: Fix manage_workers() RETURNS description
  workqueue: Comment correction in file header
  workqueue: mark WQ_NON_REENTRANT deprecated

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c
index 5f8ee91abdff..29b79852a845 100644
--- a/kernel/workqueue.c
+++ b/kernel/workqueue.c
@@ -16,9 +16,10 @@
  *
  * This is the generic async execution mechanism.  Work items as are
  * executed in process context.  The worker pool is shared and
- * automatically managed.  There is one worker pool for each CPU and
- * one extra for works which are better served by workers which are
- * not bound to any specific CPU.
+ * automatically managed.  There are two worker pools for each CPU (one for
+ * normal work items and the other for high priority ones) and some extra
+ * pools for workqueues which are not bound to any specific CPU - the
+ * number of these backing pools is dynamic.
  *
  * Please read Documentation/workqueue.txt for details.
  */
@@ -2033,8 +2034,11 @@ static bool maybe_destroy_workers(struct worker_pool *pool)
  * multiple times.  Does GFP_KERNEL allocations.
  *
  * RETURNS:
- * spin_lock_irq(pool->lock) which may be released and regrabbed
- * multiple times.  Does GFP_KERNEL allocations.
+ * %false if the pool don't need management and the caller can safely start
+ * processing works, %true indicates that the function released pool->lock
+ * and reacquired it to perform some management function and that the
+ * conditions that the caller verified while holding the lock before
+ * calling the function might no longer be true.
  */
 static bool manage_workers(struct worker *worker)
 {