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| author | Minu Jin <s9430939@naver.com> | 2025-11-25 09:04:07 +0900 |
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| committer | Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> | 2026-01-20 19:44:23 -0800 |
| commit | f34e19c34e4e92338d2ceaab2b95dd7790d262de (patch) | |
| tree | 071560be45b12b98ff466b5b641d9181abf588c4 /kernel/fork.c | |
| parent | 3b07086444f80c844351255fd94c2cb0a7224df2 (diff) | |
fork-comment-fix: remove ambiguous question mark in CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID comment
The current comment "Clear TID on mm_release()?" ends with a question
mark, implying uncertainty about whether the TID is actually cleared in
mm_release().
However, the code flow is deterministic. When a task exits, mm_release()
explicitly checks 'tsk->clear_child_tid' and clears.
Since this behavior is unambiguous, remove the confusing question mark and
rephrase the comment to clearly state that TID is cleared in mm_release().
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251125000407.24470-1-s9430939@naver.com
Signed-off-by: Minu Jin <s9430939@naver.com>
Cc: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>
Cc: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/fork.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/fork.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c index b1f3915d5f8e..b21eccc9e11c 100644 --- a/kernel/fork.c +++ b/kernel/fork.c @@ -2071,7 +2071,7 @@ __latent_entropy struct task_struct *copy_process( p->set_child_tid = (clone_flags & CLONE_CHILD_SETTID) ? args->child_tid : NULL; /* - * Clear TID on mm_release()? + * TID is cleared in mm_release() when the task exits */ p->clear_child_tid = (clone_flags & CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID) ? args->child_tid : NULL; |