Name

wait_event_cmd — sleep until a condition gets true

Synopsis

wait_event_cmd ( wq,
  condition,
  cmd1,
  cmd2);
 

Arguments

wq

the waitqueue to wait on

condition

a C expression for the event to wait for

cmd1

the command will be executed before sleep

cmd2

the command will be executed after sleep

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.