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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. * |