Re: [QUESTION] How to use interruptible_sleep_on() without races ?

[Jean Tourrilhes]

On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 04:20:04AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > 
> > 	I looked at it in every possible way, and I don't see how it
> > is possible to use safely interruptible_sleep_on(). And I wonder :
> 
> It isnt for interrupt stuff - its going back to the old kernel behaviour
> when it used to be usable

	So, maybe it would be a nice idea to remove it from the 2.5.X
kernel to force a "spring cleanup" of the old code. If it's no longer
usable and only confusing, it should be purged...

> Actually the code it uses is clean, slightly verbose but clean. It puts
> the phases in the right order and that fixes the race cleanly. You
> could just use completions in that case or you could use
> 
> 	wait_event_interruptible(&my_wait_queue, my_condition==FALSE)
> 
> which is a macro that generates the right stuff.

	And it might even want to be defined in include/linux/sched.h
as a replacement for interruptible_sleep_on(). It seems like a generic
need, and I would feel much safer if one of the guru wrote it properly
for me ;-)

> Alan

	Regards,

	Jean