wake_up_process

Langue: en

Version: October 2010 (fedora - 01/12/10)

Section: 9 (Appels noyau Linux)

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NAME

wake_up_process - Wake up a specific process

SYNOPSIS

int wake_up_process(struct task_struct * p);

ARGUMENTS

p

The process to be woken up.

DESCRIPTION

Attempt to wake up the nominated process and move it to the set of runnable processes. Returns 1 if the process was woken up, 0 if it was already running.

It may be assumed that this function implies a write memory barrier before changing the task state if and only if any tasks are woken up.