On Fri, 2018-01-26 at 17:58 +0100, Michal Suchanek wrote:
> Add convenience macro for polling an event that does not have a
> waitqueue.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michal Suchanek <msucha...@suse.de>
> ---
> include/linux/delay.h | 12 ++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/delay.h b/include/linux/delay.h
> index b78bab4395d8..3ae9fa395628 100644
> --- a/include/linux/delay.h
> +++ b/include/linux/delay.h
> @@ -64,4 +64,16 @@ static inline void ssleep(unsigned int seconds)
> msleep(seconds * 1000);
> }
>
> +#define poll_event_interruptible(event, interval) ({ \
> + int ret = 0; \
> + while (!(event)) { \
> + if (signal_pending(current)) { \
> + ret = -ERESTARTSYS; \
> + break; \
> + } \
> + msleep_interruptible(interval); \
> + } \
> + ret; \
> +})
> +
> #endif /* defined(_LINUX_DELAY_H) */
Sorry but I'm not sure we should encourage other kernel developers to use
busy-waiting by adding the poll_event_interruptible() macro to a system-wide
header file. Can that macro be moved into a CDROM-specific .c or .h file?
Thanks,
Bart.
