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From: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org>
To: Denis Vlasenko <vda@ilport.com.ua>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Driver writer's guide to sleeping
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 16:56:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050627145648.GA28445@nd47.coderock.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200506251250.18133.vda@ilport.com.ua>

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.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-06-27 15:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-06-25  9:50 [RFC] Driver writer's guide to sleeping Denis Vlasenko
2005-06-25 11:29 ` Oliver Neukum
2005-06-25 11:54   ` Denis Vlasenko
2005-06-26 19:38     ` Oliver Neukum
2005-06-27 13:20       ` Denis Vlasenko
2005-06-27 14:56 ` Domen Puncer [this message]
2005-06-27 16:04 ` Nish Aravamudan

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