centos man page for wait_event_lock_irq

Query: wait_event_lock_irq

OS: centos

Section: 9

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WAIT_EVENT_LOCK_IRQ(9)						   Driver Basics					    WAIT_EVENT_LOCK_IRQ(9)

NAME
wait_event_lock_irq - sleep until a condition gets true. The condition is checked under the lock. This is expected to be called with the lock taken.
SYNOPSIS
wait_event_lock_irq(wq, condition, lock);
ARGUMENTS
wq the waitqueue to wait on condition a C expression for the event to wait for lock a locked spinlock_t, which will be released before schedule and reacquired afterwards.
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. This is supposed to be called while holding the lock. The lock is dropped before going to sleep and is reacquired afterwards.
COPYRIGHT
Kernel Hackers Manual 3.10 June 2014 WAIT_EVENT_LOCK_IRQ(9)
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