wake_up_process(9)

wake_up_process9

Wake up a specific process

Usage

int wake_up_process(struct task_struct * p);

Arguments

p

The process to be woken up.

Overview

Attempt to wake up the nominated process and move it to the set of runnable processes.

Return

1 if the process was woken up, 0 if it was already running.

It may be assumed that this function implies a write memory barrier before changing the task state if and only if any tasks are woken up.

Releases

3 releases since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); the text changed 2 times.

  1. 6.0
  2. 7
  3. 8

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