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authorJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>2016-09-20 10:11:04 +1000
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>2016-09-20 17:27:17 +1000
commit990be615888bb56af43ec0563fc3737905d1e1cd (patch)
tree89bd49b5e2f1e11ca8667f7a76c3709f71210acc
parent80fbe1a1d4f1b90b3230f4cd1165efb2fa23930e (diff)
downloadlinux-next-990be615888bb56af43ec0563fc3737905d1e1cd.tar.gz
kthread: add kerneldoc for kthread_create()
This macro is referenced in other kerneldoc comments, but lacks one of its own; fix that. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160826072313.726a3485@lwn.net Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Reported-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
-rw-r--r--include/linux/kthread.h11
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/kthread.h b/include/linux/kthread.h
index e691b6a23f72..489c697f44b7 100644
--- a/include/linux/kthread.h
+++ b/include/linux/kthread.h
@@ -10,6 +10,17 @@ struct task_struct *kthread_create_on_node(int (*threadfn)(void *data),
int node,
const char namefmt[], ...);
+/**
+ * kthread_create - create a kthread on the current node
+ * @threadfn: the function to run in the thread
+ * @data: data pointer for @threadfn()
+ * @namefmt: printf-style format string for the thread name
+ * @...: arguments for @namefmt.
+ *
+ * This macro will create a kthread on the current node, leaving it in
+ * the stopped state. This is just a helper for kthread_create_on_node();
+ * see the documentation there for more details.
+ */
#define kthread_create(threadfn, data, namefmt, arg...) \
kthread_create_on_node(threadfn, data, NUMA_NO_NODE, namefmt, ##arg)