Re: Periodic event in Kernel Module

"Nish Aravamudan" <nish.aravamudan@xxxxxxxxx> · Mon, 12 Feb 2007 09:21:09 -0800

On 2/12/07, topi <topi@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
hi,
<snip>

Just FYI:

my code looks like:

for (;;)
{
      set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
      schedule_timeout(X);

schedule_timeout_interruptible() exists now.

      set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);

And this is unnecessary (and adds an unnecessary mb()) since
schedule_timeout() guarantees to only return in TASK_RUNNING.

      if (signal_pending(current))
         break;

      do_work_here();
}

Thanks,
Nish

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