Linux系统提供了一种比信号量更好的同步机制,即completion,它用于一个执行单元等待另一个执行单元执行完某事。Linux系统中与completion相关的操作主要有以下4种:
(1) 定义completion
struct completion my_completion;
(2) 初始化completion
init_completion(&my_completion);
对my_completion的定义和初始化可以通过如下快捷方式实现
DECLEARE_COMPLETION(my_completion);
(3) 等待completion
void wait_for_completion(struct completion *c);
(4) 唤醒completion
void complete(struct completion *c);
void complete_all(struct completion *c);
前者只唤醒一个等待的执行单元,后者唤醒所有等待同一completion的执行单元。
执行单元A 执行单元B
struct completion com;
init_completion(&com);
wake up
wait_for_completion(&com); <----------- complete(&com);
kernel_thread.c
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#include <linux/kernel.h>
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/init.h>
#include <linux/param.h>
#include <linux/jiffies.h>
#include <asm/system.h>
#include <asm/processor.h>
#include <asm/signal.h>
#include <linux/completion.h> // for DECLARE_COMPLETION()
#include <linux/sched.h> // for daemonize() and set_current_state()
#include <linux/delay.h> // mdelay()
static pid_t thread_id;
static DECLARE_COMPLETION(my_completion);
int my_fuction(void *arg)
{
printk("<1> in %s()/n", __FUNCTION__);
daemonize("demo-thread");
allow_signal(SIGKILL);
mdelay(2000);
printk("<1> my_function complete()/n");
complete(&my_completion); // wake up wait_for_completion
while (!signal_pending(current)) { // no signal
printk("<1> jiffies is %lu/n", jiffies);
set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
schedule_timeout(HZ * 5);
}
return 0;
}
static int __init init(void)
{
thread_id = kernel_thread(my_fuction, NULL, CLONE_FS | CLONE_FILES);
printk("<1> init wait_for_completion()/n");
wait_for_completion(&my_completion);
return 0;
}
static void __exit finish(void)
{
kill_proc(thread_id, SIGKILL, 1);
printk("<1> Goodbye/n");
}
module_init(init);
module_exit(finish);
MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
Makefile
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KDIR=/usr/src/kernels/2.6.23.1-42.fc8-i686
obj-m += kernel_thread.o
all:
make -C $(KDIR) M=`pwd` modules
clean:
make -C $(KDIR) M=`pwd` clean