Merge branch '4.3-fixes' into mips-for-linux-next

[linux-drm-fsl-dcu.git] / kernel / kthread.c

diff --git a/kernel/kthread.c b/kernel/kthread.c
index 490924cc9e7c8252c447e802f142d0a3a150865d..9ff173dca1aef5e09fd640dc6757fee99c7a956c 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/kthread.c
+++ b/kernel/kthread.c
@@ -248,15 +248,16 @@ static void create_kthread(struct kthread_create_info *create)
  * kthread_create_on_node - create a kthread.
  * @threadfn: the function to run until signal_pending(current).
  * @data: data ptr for @threadfn.
- * @node: memory node number.
+ * @node: task and thread structures for the thread are allocated on this node
  * @namefmt: printf-style name for the thread.
  *
  * Description: This helper function creates and names a kernel
  * thread.  The thread will be stopped: use wake_up_process() to start
- * it.  See also kthread_run().
+ * it.  See also kthread_run().  The new thread has SCHED_NORMAL policy and
+ * is affine to all CPUs.
  *
  * If thread is going to be bound on a particular cpu, give its node
- * in @node, to get NUMA affinity for kthread stack, or else give -1.
+ * in @node, to get NUMA affinity for kthread stack, or else give NUMA_NO_NODE.
  * When woken, the thread will run @threadfn() with @data as its
  * argument. @threadfn() can either call do_exit() directly if it is a
  * standalone thread for which no one will call kthread_stop(), or