wait_event_* and wake_up_*

Pranith Kumar pranith at gatech.edu
Wed Jul 23 09:36:45 EDT 2014


On Jul 22, 2014 10:41 PM, "Mohammad Merajul Islam Molla" <
meraj.enigma at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> You may find this useful - http://www.makelinux.net/ldd3/chp-6-sect-2
>
>

Thanks Meraj, that is really helpful.

> --
> Thanks,
> -Meraj
>
> On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 8:12 AM, Pranith Kumar <pranith at gatech.edu> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Could someone point me to good documentation about the wait_event_*
> > and wake_up_* event family APIs?
> >
> > I tried searching and nothing concrete shows up.
> >
> > In particular:
> >
> > When do we use wake_up_interruptible()? Does wake_up(wq) wake up all
> > the threads which are waiting on that work queue? Is the waking up of
> > threads sequential?
> >
> > That should suffice for now I guess :)
> >
> > Regards,
> > --
> > Pranith
> >
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