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From: Alex Ivchenko <aivchenko@ueidaq.com>
To: root@chaos.analogic.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.4.6 possible problem
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 14:44:30 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B54878E.F1CC19FE@ueidaq.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.1010717103652.1430A-100000@chaos.analogic.com>

Well,

> funct()
> {
>     size_t ticks;
>     wait_queue_head_t wqhead;
>     init_waitqueue_head(&wqhead);
> 
>     ticks = 1 * HZ;        /* For 1 second */
>     while((ticks = interruptible_sleep_on_timeout(&wqhead, ticks)) > 0)
>                   ;
> }
Well, this works.

The question is: should I call init_waitqueue_head() every time I call
interruptible_sleep_on_timeout() or is it enough to call it once in init_module() ?

Another one: should I call wake_up_interruptible() to release pending request?


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Alex

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  reply	other threads:[~2001-07-17 18:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-07-17 14:01 2.4.6 possible problem Alex Ivchenko
2001-07-17 14:46 ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-07-17 18:44   ` Alex Ivchenko [this message]
2001-07-17 18:52     ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-07-17 19:24   ` Linus Torvalds
2001-07-17 19:36     ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-07-17 19:42       ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-07-17 22:33       ` Alex Ivchenko

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