On 07/23/2018 05:37 PM, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Jul 2018 16:23:09 +0200
> Snild Dolkow <sn...@sony.com> wrote:
>
>> On 07/23/2018 03:55 PM, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>>
>>> Can you add a comment here stating something to the affect of:
>>> /* task is now visible to other tasks */
>>>
>>> -- Steve
>> Sure, but isn't that a bit misleading? It will have been visible since
>> some unknown point in time between waking up kthreadd and the return of
>> wait_for_completion(); we're not the ones making it visible.
>>
>
> I guess that should be reworded, as that is not what I meant, and I
> thought not what I stated. It's stating that the task is now visible,
> not that we are now making it invisible. But I guess I was being too
> short with what I meant. Here's the full statement:
>
> /*
> * task is now visible by other tasks, so updating COMM
> * must be protected.
> */
>
> -- Steve
>
Ah. It's the "now" that trips me up. :)
Will add:
/*
* task is already visible to other tasks, so updating
* COMM must be protected.
*/
Any issues with the commit message? Reading it back again now, it doesn't
seem quite as clear as when I wrote it.
//Snild
