On 10/3/05, Jan Hudec <bulb@xxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 16:06:26 +0900, NAHieu wrote: > > Anybody please tell me: does wake_up_interruptible() sleep? I want to > > call wake_up_interruptible() inside an irq handler, and if it may > > sleep, I will need to run it from a tasklet instead of executing it > > directly. > > No, it does not. Nor does any other wake_up* variant. If you look at the > code, they start with taking a spinlock and end with releasing it, so > they can't sleep. > > By the way, if it did, tasklet would _not_ help you. Tasklet is still > not a process context. process context? But why I need the process context here? Thank you. Hieu -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
