Re: [RFC] Driver writer's guide to sleeping

From: Oliver Neukum
Date: Sun Jun 26 2005 - 14:43:51 EST


Am Samstag, 25. Juni 2005 13:54 schrieb Denis Vlasenko:
> On Saturday 25 June 2005 14:29, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> > On Sat, 25 Jun 2005, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> >
> > > schedule_timeout(timeout)
> > > Whee, it has a comment! :)
> > > * %TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE - at least @timeout jiffies are guaranteed to
> > > * pass before the routine returns. The routine will return 0
> [snip]
> > > Thus:
> > > set_current_state(TASK_[UN]INTERRUPTIBLE);
> > > schedule_timeout(timeout_in_jiffies)
> > >
> > > msleep(ms)
> > > Sleeps at least ms msecs.
> > > Equivalent to:
> > > set_current_state(TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
> > > schedule_timeout(timeout)
> >
> > If and only if you are not on any waitqueue. You may not be interrupted
> > by a signal, but you still can be woken with an explicit wake_up()
>
> Like this?

Yes, but we have macros for that. You are supposed to use them.

Regards
Oliver
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/