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From: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>
To: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: questions on wait_event ...
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 18:16:25 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43AB41D9.6070600@shaw.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5mIFB-6PS-33@gated-at.bofh.it>

Alexey Shinkin wrote:
> Hi , all !
> Could anyone please clarify one thing in that old well known
> wait_event_... code (taken from 2.6.5 wait.h ):
> 
> #define __wait_event_interruptible(wq, condition, ret)          \
> do {                                                                    \
>        wait_queue_t __wait;                                     \
>        init_waitqueue_entry(&__wait, current);           \
>                                                                        \
>        add_wait_queue(&wq, &__wait);                   \
>        for (;;) {                                                      \
>                set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);    \
>                if (condition)                                          \
>                        break;
> ........................................
> 
> Is it possible that scheduling happen after set_current_state() but before
> checking the condition ?
> If yes - even if we will have condition==TRUE by this moment - the 
> scheduler
> will make the process to sleep anyway , right ?

Yes, but since the condition would then have changed after we were put 
into the wait queue, they would have woken up the queue and we should be 
woken up again.

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Robert Hancock      Saskatoon, SK, Canada
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       reply	other threads:[~2005-12-23  0:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <5mIFB-6PS-33@gated-at.bofh.it>
2005-12-23  0:16 ` Robert Hancock [this message]
2005-12-23  0:51   ` questions on wait_event Alexey Shinkin
2005-12-23  1:10     ` Steven Rostedt
2005-12-23  1:46       ` Alexey Shinkin
2005-12-23 20:48         ` Steven Rostedt
2005-12-23  0:04 Alexey Shinkin

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