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-rw-r--r--src/gallium/auxiliary/util/u_helpers.c5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/gallium/auxiliary/util/u_helpers.c b/src/gallium/auxiliary/util/u_helpers.c
index b6cebf96329..4c70c004178 100644
--- a/src/gallium/auxiliary/util/u_helpers.c
+++ b/src/gallium/auxiliary/util/u_helpers.c
@@ -148,7 +148,10 @@ util_init_thread_pinning(void)
/* Reset thread affinity for all child processes to prevent them from
* inheriting the current thread's affinity.
*
- * What happens if a driver is unloaded and the app creates a thread?
+ * XXX: If the driver is unloaded after this, and the app later calls
+ * fork(), the child process will likely crash before fork() returns,
+ * because the address where util_set_full_cpu_affinity was located
+ * will either be unmapped or point to random other contents.
*/
pthread_atfork(NULL, NULL, util_set_full_cpu_affinity);
}