On Mon, 28 Aug 2006, Nish Aravamudan wrote:
On Sun, 27 Aug 2006, Nish Aravamudan wrote:
> *sleep_on* are deprecated and racy.
http://lwn.net/Articles/68118/
Thanks for the reference.
One would expect that if the only goal is to wait for a period of
time, then calls such as
interruptible_sleep_on(&my_wait);
should be ok, no? (Why one would do that is another issue of course;
normally there is some condition to be met to break the sleep.)
There also seem to be a bunch of calls to fix the situation in the
article, such as wait_event_timeout() which seem include both a timeout
and a condition that must be met. Don't know when they were introduced.
For example:
wait_event_timeout( wq, flag != 0, sleep_jiffies);
wait_event_interruptible( wq, flag != 0 );
/Ricard
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