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kthread: update comment for __to_kthread
authorJiazi Li <jqqlijiazi@gmail.com>
Fri, 20 Jun 2025 10:07:56 +0000 (18:07 +0800)
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 10 Jul 2025 05:57:55 +0000 (22:57 -0700)
commitfed307b67c5bbb17b72c54816cd1bce61c23b4d7
tree549049ee8c625a9ec2eebcc5c49c0d35dab57a1e
parentcaf728dfa7789f7096e8cd4341b4bf8f671f5c1d
kthread: update comment for __to_kthread

With commit 343f4c49f243 ("kthread: Don't allocate kthread_struct for init
and umh") and commit 753550eb0ce1 ("fork: Explicitly set PF_KTHREAD"), umh
task no longer have struct kthread and PF_KTHREAD flag.

Update the comment to describe what the current rules are to detect
is something is a kthread.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250620100801.23185-1-jqqlijiazi@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jiazi Li <jqqlijiazi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: mingzhu.wang <mingzhu.wang@transsion.com>
Suggested-by Eric W . Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Reviewed-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
kernel/kthread.c