From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Subject: [PATCH] kthread: add kerneldoc for kthread_create()
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2016 07:23:13 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160826072313.726a3485@lwn.net> (raw)
This macro is referenced in other kerneldoc comments, but lacks one of its
own; fix that.
Reported-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
---
include/linux/kthread.h | 11 +++++++++++
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
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)
--
2.7.4
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