wait_event_killable(9)

wait_event_killable9

Sleep until a condition gets true

Usage

wait_event_killable(wq, condition);

Arguments

wq

the waitqueue to wait on

condition

a C expression for the event to wait for

Overview

The process is put to sleep (TASK_KILLABLE) until the condition evaluates to true or a signal is received. The condition is checked each time the waitqueue wq is woken up.

wake_up has to be called after changing any variable that could change the result of the wait condition.

The function will return -ERESTARTSYS if it was interrupted by a signal and 0 if condition evaluated to true.

Releases

2 releases since Debian 7 (Wheezy); the text changed 1 time.

  1. 7
  2. 8

From linux-manual-3.16 3.16.56-1+deb8u1 in Debian 8 (Jessie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.