centos man page for wait_event_killable

Query: wait_event_killable

OS: centos

Section: 9

Format: Original Unix Latex Style Formatted with HTML and a Horizontal Scroll Bar

WAIT_EVENT_KILLABLE(9)						   Driver Basics					    WAIT_EVENT_KILLABLE(9)

NAME
wait_event_killable - sleep until a condition gets true
SYNOPSIS
wait_event_killable(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_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.
COPYRIGHT
Kernel Hackers Manual 3.10 June 2014 WAIT_EVENT_KILLABLE(9)
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