Name
wake_up_process —
Wake up a specific process
Synopsis
int wake_up_process ( | struct task_struct * p); |
Arguments
p
The process to be woken up.
Description
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.