COMPLETE

Section: Driver Basics (9)
Updated: February 2011
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NAME

complete - signals a single thread waiting on this completion  

SYNOPSIS

void complete(struct completion * x);
 

ARGUMENTS

x

holds the state of this particular completion
 

DESCRIPTION

This will wake up a single thread waiting on this completion. Threads will be awakened in the same order in which they were queued.

See also complete_all, wait_for_completion and related routines.

It may be assumed that this function implies a write memory barrier before changing the task state if and only if any tasks are woken up.  

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