Re: IRQ and sleep_on

From: David Woodhouse (dwmw2@infradead.org)
Date: Mon Feb 05 2001 - 07:48:39 EST


christophe.barbe@inup.com said:
> It seems to be ok. I've no more bad sleeps or more exactly rarely and
> that why I submit this to you. Is my way to do it correct ? I've
> joined at the end of this mail the modified function.

You can't restore flags in a different function to the one you saved them
in. It'll break.

You should probably be using the wait_event() macro instead, which does
something similar - actually it performs the check after setting up the wait
queue, rather than releasing the lock.

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dwmw2

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