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-rw-r--r--nptl/ChangeLog5
-rw-r--r--nptl/allocatestack.c5
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/nptl/ChangeLog b/nptl/ChangeLog
index 33152e2550..4aacc17e99 100644
--- a/nptl/ChangeLog
+++ b/nptl/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2013-01-11 Carlos O'Donell <codonell@redhat.com>
+
+ * allocatestack.c (allocate_stack): Add comment. Remove assert
+ on attr.
+
2013-01-11 H.J. Lu <hongjiu.lu@intel.com>
* Makefile (tst-cancel7-ARGS: Replace $(host-built-program-cmd)
diff --git a/nptl/allocatestack.c b/nptl/allocatestack.c
index d1056eefa0..31c88291ae 100644
--- a/nptl/allocatestack.c
+++ b/nptl/allocatestack.c
@@ -340,6 +340,10 @@ change_stack_perm (struct pthread *pd
}
+/* Returns a usable stack for a new thread either by allocating a
+ new stack or reusing a cached stack of sufficient size.
+ ATTR must be non-NULL and point to a valid pthread_attr.
+ PDP must be non-NULL. */
static int
allocate_stack (const struct pthread_attr *attr, struct pthread **pdp,
ALLOCATE_STACK_PARMS)
@@ -349,7 +353,6 @@ allocate_stack (const struct pthread_attr *attr, struct pthread **pdp,
size_t pagesize_m1 = __getpagesize () - 1;
void *stacktop;
- assert (attr != NULL);
assert (powerof2 (pagesize_m1 + 1));
assert (TCB_ALIGNMENT >= STACK_ALIGN);