linux-kernel - Re: wait_for_completion

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Message-Id: <1172765150.25580.10.camel@mtls03>
Date:	Thu, 01 Mar 2007 18:05:50 +0200
From:	Eli Cohen <eli@...lanox.co.il>
To:	Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@...il.com>
Cc:	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: wait_for_completion_timeout problem ???

On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 15:28 +0100, Dmitry Adamushko wrote:

> So either all the users of wait_for_completion_timeout() should
> additionally check for x->done after they got scheduled
> 
> or
> 
> wait_for_completion_timeout() should return something different that
> encodes the fact /event happened/ and not just /event happened _and_ a
> caller has got scheduled back earlier than timeout.
> 

The second suggestion makes sense to me more and is more portable then
the first one.

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