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Message-ID: <tip-c6dc7f055d333ef35f397b8d7c3abcd1918bf8cb@git.kernel.org>
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 15:29:56 -0800
From: "tip-bot for J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...hat.com>
To: linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, hpa@...or.com, mingo@...hat.com,
a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl, tglx@...utronix.de, bfields@...hat.com,
mingo@...e.hu
Subject: [tip:sched/core] sched: Document wait_for_completion_*() return values
Commit-ID: c6dc7f055d333ef35f397b8d7c3abcd1918bf8cb
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/c6dc7f055d333ef35f397b8d7c3abcd1918bf8cb
Author: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@...hat.com>
AuthorDate: Thu, 6 Oct 2011 15:22:46 -0400
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
CommitDate: Mon, 14 Nov 2011 12:50:37 +0100
sched: Document wait_for_completion_*() return values
The return-value convention for these functions varies depending on
whether they're interruptible or can timeout. It can be a little
confusing--document it.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111006192246.GB28026@fieldses.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
---
kernel/sched.c | 13 +++++++++++++
1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c
index 0e9344a..3d2c436 100644
--- a/kernel/sched.c
+++ b/kernel/sched.c
@@ -4810,6 +4810,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(wait_for_completion);
* This waits for either a completion of a specific task to be signaled or for a
* specified timeout to expire. The timeout is in jiffies. It is not
* interruptible.
+ *
+ * The return value is 0 if timed out, and positive (at least 1, or number of
+ * jiffies left till timeout) if completed.
*/
unsigned long __sched
wait_for_completion_timeout(struct completion *x, unsigned long timeout)
@@ -4824,6 +4827,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(wait_for_completion_timeout);
*
* This waits for completion of a specific task to be signaled. It is
* interruptible.
+ *
+ * The return value is -ERESTARTSYS if interrupted, 0 if completed.
*/
int __sched wait_for_completion_interruptible(struct completion *x)
{
@@ -4841,6 +4846,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(wait_for_completion_interruptible);
*
* This waits for either a completion of a specific task to be signaled or for a
* specified timeout to expire. It is interruptible. The timeout is in jiffies.
+ *
+ * The return value is -ERESTARTSYS if interrupted, 0 if timed out,
+ * positive (at least 1, or number of jiffies left till timeout) if completed.
*/
long __sched
wait_for_completion_interruptible_timeout(struct completion *x,
@@ -4856,6 +4864,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(wait_for_completion_interruptible_timeout);
*
* This waits to be signaled for completion of a specific task. It can be
* interrupted by a kill signal.
+ *
+ * The return value is -ERESTARTSYS if interrupted, 0 if completed.
*/
int __sched wait_for_completion_killable(struct completion *x)
{
@@ -4874,6 +4884,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(wait_for_completion_killable);
* This waits for either a completion of a specific task to be
* signaled or for a specified timeout to expire. It can be
* interrupted by a kill signal. The timeout is in jiffies.
+ *
+ * The return value is -ERESTARTSYS if interrupted, 0 if timed out,
+ * positive (at least 1, or number of jiffies left till timeout) if completed.
*/
long __sched
wait_for_completion_killable_timeout(struct completion *x,
--
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