linux-kernel - [PATCH] Description of task

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Date:	Wed,  1 Feb 2012 15:02:45 +0900
From:	Geunsik Lim <geunsik.lim@...il.com>
To:	Jiri Kosina <trivial@...nel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] Description of task_struct.personality element

This is trivial patch for helpful description of
task_struct.personality elements. '???'description is
not suitable to understand a element meaning of data structure.

Signed-off-by: Geunsik Lim <geunsik.lim@...sung.com>
---
 include/linux/sched.h |    3 +--
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index 2234985..81e9de9 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -1307,8 +1307,7 @@ struct task_struct {
 	int exit_code, exit_signal;
 	int pdeath_signal;  /*  The signal sent when the parent dies  */
 	unsigned int jobctl;	/* JOBCTL_*, siglock protected */
-	/* ??? */
-	unsigned int personality;
+	unsigned int personality; /* Personality types of process */
 	unsigned did_exec:1;
 	unsigned in_execve:1;	/* Tell the LSMs that the process is doing an
 				 * execve */
-- 
1.7.8.1

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