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

From: Domen Puncer
Date: Mon Jun 27 2005 - 10:43:41 EST


On 25/06/05 12:50 +0300, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
...
> msleep_interruptible(ms)
> Sleeps ms msecs (or more) unless has been woken up (signal, waitqueue...).
> Q: exact list of possible waking events? (I'm a bit overwhelmed by multitude
> of slightly different waitqueues, tasklets, softirqs, bhs...)

Only signal (or, obviously, timeout) will wake it. wake_up*() will not.
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