Name
wait_event —
sleep until a condition gets true
Synopsis
wait_event ( | wq, |
| | condition); |
Arguments
wq
the waitqueue to wait on
condition
a C expression for the event to wait for
Description
The process is put to sleep (TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE) until the
condition evaluates to true. 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.