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authorTakashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>2012-01-31 15:13:14 +0100
committerTakashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>2012-01-31 15:13:14 +0100
commitea51e5040e24eefe44d70bc654a237ca1f0225b0 (patch)
treedf2e5922dcdfafae62a10d8cd97f98121064fc23 /kernel/pid.c
parent3422a47041b8cb8f14ac1e3926bcf711121df6dc (diff)
parent8dbd52daee38adaae4d5a674bcca837e694a4f4c (diff)
Merge branch 'fix/asoc' into for-linus
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/pid.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/pid.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/pid.c b/kernel/pid.c
index fa5f72227e5..ce8e00deacc 100644
--- a/kernel/pid.c
+++ b/kernel/pid.c
@@ -137,7 +137,9 @@ static int pid_before(int base, int a, int b)
}
/*
- * We might be racing with someone else trying to set pid_ns->last_pid.
+ * We might be racing with someone else trying to set pid_ns->last_pid
+ * at the pid allocation time (there's also a sysctl for this, but racing
+ * with this one is OK, see comment in kernel/pid_namespace.c about it).
* We want the winner to have the "later" value, because if the
* "earlier" value prevails, then a pid may get reused immediately.
*