Follow these steps in the code path to signal the condition:
Acquire the mutex guarding the condition.
Set the condition.
Signal the blocked thread with cv_broadcast(9F).
Release the mutex.
The following example uses a busy flag along with mutex and condition variables to force the read(9E) routine to wait until the device is no longer busy before starting a transfer.
static int xxread(dev_t dev, struct uio *uiop, cred_t *credp) { struct xxstate *xsp; /* ... */ mutex_enter(&xsp->mu); while (xsp->busy) cv_wait(&xsp->cv, &xsp->mu); xsp->busy = 1; mutex_exit(&xsp->mu); /* perform the data access */ } static uint_t xxintr(caddr_t arg) { struct xxstate *xsp = (struct xxstate *)arg; mutex_enter(&xsp->mu); xsp->busy = 0; cv_broadcast(&xsp->cv); mutex_exit(&xsp->mu); }