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The function busywait() is handy as a safety-latched variant of a while loop. Many selftests deal specifically with counter values, and busywaiting on them is likely to be rather common (it is not quite common now, but busywait() has not been around for very long). To facilitate expressing simply what is tested, introduce two helpers: - until_counter_is(), which can be used as a predicate passed to busywait(), which holds when expression, which is itself passed as an argument to until_counter_is(), reaches a desired value. - busywait_for_counter(), which is useful for waiting until a given counter changes "by" (as opposed to "to") a certain amount. Signed-off-by: Petr Machata <petrm@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.