SLEEP(9)                                                 SLEEP(9)

     NAME
          sleep, wakeup, tsleep, return0 - process synchronisation

     SYNOPSIS
          void sleep(Rendez *r, int (*f)(void*), void *arg)

          void wakeup(Rendez *r)

          void tsleep(Rendez *r, int (*f)(void*), void *arg, ulong ms)

          int  return0(void *arg)

     DESCRIPTION
          A process running in the kernel can use these functions to
          synchronise with an interrupt handler or another kernel pro-
          cess.  In particular, they are used by device drivers to
          wait for an event to be signalled on receipt of an inter-
          rupt.  (In practice, they are most often used indirectly,
          through qio(9) for instance.)

          The caller of sleep and a caller of wakeup share a Rendez
          structure, to provide a rendezvous point between them to
          synchronise on an event.  Sleep uses a condition function f
          that returns true if the event has occurred.

          Sleep evaluates f(arg).  If true, the event has happened and
          sleep returns immediately.  Otherwise, sleep blocks on the
          event variable r, awaiting wakeup.

          Wakeup is called by either a process or an interrupt handler
          to wake any process sleeping at r, signifying that the cor-
          responding condition is true (the event has occurred).  It
          has no effect if there is no sleeping process.

          Tsleep is similar to sleep, except that if the condition
          f(arg) is false and the caller does sleep, and nothing else
          wakes it within ms millliseconds, the system will wake it.
          Tsleep's caller must check its environment to decide whether
          timeout or the event occurred.  The timing provided by
          tsleep is imprecise, but adequate in practice for the normal
          use of protecting against lost interrupts and otherwise
          unresponsive devices or software.

          Return0 ignores its arguments and returns zero. It is com-
          monly used as the predicate f in a call to tsleep to obtain
          a time delay, using the Rendez variable sleep in the Proc
          structure, for example:

               tsleep(&up->sleep, return0, nil, 10);

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     SLEEP(9)                                                 SLEEP(9)

          Both sleep and tsleep can be interrupted by postnote (see
          kproc(9)).

     SOURCE
          /sys/src/9/port/proc.c
          /sys/src/9/port/sysproc.c

     DIAGNOSTICS
          There can be at most one process waiting on a Rendez, and if
          two processes collide, the system will panic(9) (``double
          sleep'').  Access to a Rendez must therefore be serialised
          by some other mechanism, usually qlock(9).

     SEE ALSO
          lock(9), qlock(9), delay(9)
          ``Process Sleep and Wakeup on a Shared-memory Multiproces-
          sor'', in Plan 9 Programmer's Manual: Volume 2 .

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