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.TH SLEEP 9 .SH NAME sleep, wakeup, tsleep, return0 \- process synchronisation .SH SYNOPSIS .ta \w'\fLvoid 'u .B void sleep(Rendez *r, int (*f)(void*), void *arg) .PP .B void wakeup(Rendez *r) .PP .B void tsleep(Rendez *r, int (*f)(void*), void *arg, ulong ms) .PP .B int return0(void *arg) .PP .SH DESCRIPTION A process running in the kernel can use these functions to synchronise with an interrupt handler or another kernel process. In particular, they are used by device drivers to wait for an event to be signalled on receipt of an interrupt. (In practice, they are most often used indirectly, through .IR qio (9) for instance.) .PP The caller of .I sleep and a caller of .I wakeup share a .B Rendez structure, to provide a rendezvous point between them to synchronise on an event. .I Sleep uses a condition function .I f that returns true if the event has occurred. .PP .I Sleep evaluates .IB f ( arg ). If true, the event has happened and .I sleep returns immediately. Otherwise, .I sleep blocks on the event variable .IR r , awaiting .IR wakeup . .PP .I Wakeup is called by either a process or an interrupt handler to wake any process sleeping at .IR r , signifying that the corresponding condition is true (the event has occurred). It has no effect if there is no sleeping process. .PP .I Tsleep is similar to .IR sleep , except that if the condition .IB f ( arg ) is false and the caller does sleep, and nothing else wakes it within .I ms millliseconds, the system will wake it. .IR Tsleep 's caller must check its environment to decide whether timeout or the event occurred. The timing provided by .I tsleep is imprecise, but adequate in practice for the normal use of protecting against lost interrupts and otherwise unresponsive devices or software. .PP .I Return0 ignores its arguments and returns zero. It is commonly used as the predicate .I f in a call to .I tsleep to obtain a time delay, using the .B Rendez variable .B sleep in the .B Proc structure, for example: .IP .B tsleep(&up->sleep, return0, nil, 10); .PP Both .I sleep and .I tsleep can be interrupted by .IR postnote (see .IR kproc (9)). .SH SOURCE .B /sys/src/9/port/proc.c .br .B /sys/src/9/port/sysproc.c .SH DIAGNOSTICS There can be at most one process waiting on a .BR Rendez , and if two processes collide, the system will .IR panic (9) .RB (`` "double sleep" ''). Access to a .B Rendez must therefore be serialised by some other mechanism, usually .IR qlock (9). .SH SEE ALSO .IR lock (9), .IR qlock (9), .IR delay (9) .br ``Process Sleep and Wakeup on a Shared-memory Multiprocessor'', in .I "Plan 9 Programmer's Manual: Volume 2".