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authorScot Doyle <lkml14@scotdoyle.com>2014-08-24 17:12:27 +0000
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2014-09-05 12:37:10 +0200
commit6b44f519017b219a12b37173c7eef8dfce2c0100 (patch)
tree011afccc53ba6ac2e63ab8ab779c5e2ef79925b2 /include/linux/wait.h
parent35b123e2f701b28977db2cde7dbbdb3fad28cad1 (diff)
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sched/wait: Document timeout corner case
The timeout may elapse without 0 being returned, such as when waiting on an unused queue. Document this possibility. Signed-off-by: Scot Doyle <lkml14@scotdoyle.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LNX.2.11.1408241710070.6462@localhost.localdomain Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/wait.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/wait.h16
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/wait.h b/include/linux/wait.h
index 6fb1ba5f9b2f..034f6fc7c65f 100644
--- a/include/linux/wait.h
+++ b/include/linux/wait.h
@@ -280,9 +280,11 @@ do { \
* wake_up() has to be called after changing any variable that could
* change the result of the wait condition.
*
- * The function returns 0 if the @timeout elapsed, or the remaining
- * jiffies (at least 1) if the @condition evaluated to %true before
- * the @timeout elapsed.
+ * Returns:
+ * 0 if the @condition evaluated to %false after the @timeout elapsed,
+ * 1 if the @condition evaluated to %true after the @timeout elapsed,
+ * or the remaining jiffies (at least 1) if the @condition evaluated
+ * to %true before the @timeout elapsed.
*/
#define wait_event_timeout(wq, condition, timeout) \
({ \
@@ -363,9 +365,11 @@ do { \
* change the result of the wait condition.
*
* Returns:
- * 0 if the @timeout elapsed, -%ERESTARTSYS if it was interrupted by
- * a signal, or the remaining jiffies (at least 1) if the @condition
- * evaluated to %true before the @timeout elapsed.
+ * 0 if the @condition evaluated to %false after the @timeout elapsed,
+ * 1 if the @condition evaluated to %true after the @timeout elapsed,
+ * the remaining jiffies (at least 1) if the @condition evaluated
+ * to %true before the @timeout elapsed, or -%ERESTARTSYS if it was
+ * interrupted by a signal.
*/
#define wait_event_interruptible_timeout(wq, condition, timeout) \
({ \