document de_thread() with exit_notify() connection

Add a couple of small comments, it is not easy to see what this code does. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
kakra · Apr 30, 2008 · 2800d8d · 2800d8d
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diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c
@@ -798,7 +798,7 @@ static int de_thread(struct task_struct *tsk)
 	if (!thread_group_leader(tsk)) {
 		leader = tsk->group_leader;
 
-		sig->notify_count = -1;
+		sig->notify_count = -1;	/* for exit_notify() */
 		for (;;) {
 			write_lock_irq(&tasklist_lock);
 			if (likely(leader->exit_state))

diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c
@@ -877,6 +877,7 @@ static void exit_notify(struct task_struct *tsk, int group_dead)
 		state = EXIT_DEAD;
 	tsk->exit_state = state;
 
+	/* mt-exec, de_thread() is waiting for us */
 	if (thread_group_leader(tsk) &&
 	    tsk->signal->notify_count < 0 &&
 	    tsk->signal->group_exit_task)