/* Wakeup a thread. Viengoos version. Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This file is part of the GNU C Library. The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. The GNU C Library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Library General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public License along with the GNU C Library; see the file COPYING.LIB. If not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */ #include #include #include #include /* Wakeup THREAD. */ void __pthread_wakeup (struct __pthread *thread) { /* We need to loop here as the blocked thread may not yet be blocked! Here's what happens when a thread blocks: it registers itself as blocked, drops the relevant lock and then actually blocks (via __pthread_block). This means that after dropping the lock and before blocking, it may be interrupted and another thread may try to wake it. */ long ret; do { ret = futex_wake (&thread->threadid, INT_MAX); assertx (ret <= 1, "tid: %x, ret: %d", thread->threadid, ret); if (ret == 0) l4_thread_switch (thread->threadid); } while (ret == 0); }