Delaying, scheduling, and timer routines
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Delaying, scheduling, and timer routines
pid_alive
— check that a task structure is not stale
is_global_init
— check if a task structure is init
preempt_notifier_register
— tell me when current is being being preempted & rescheduled
preempt_notifier_unregister
— no longer interested in preemption notifications
__wake_up
— wake up threads blocked on a waitqueue.
__wake_up_sync
— wake up threads blocked on a waitqueue.
task_nice
— return the nice value of a given task.
sched_setscheduler
— change the scheduling policy and/or RT priority of a thread.
yield
— yield the current processor to other threads.
__round_jiffies
— function to round jiffies to a full second
__round_jiffies_relative
— function to round jiffies to a full second
round_jiffies
— function to round jiffies to a full second
round_jiffies_relative
— function to round jiffies to a full second
init_timer
— initialize a timer.
mod_timer
— modify a timer's timeout
del_timer
— deactive a timer.
try_to_del_timer_sync
— Try to deactivate a timer
del_timer_sync
— deactivate a timer and wait for the handler to finish.
schedule_timeout
— sleep until timeout
msleep
— sleep safely even with waitqueue interruptions
msleep_interruptible
— sleep waiting for signals