NT waits can optionally be made "alertable". This is a special channel for
thread wakeup that is mildly similar to SIGIO. A thread has an internal single
bit of "alerted" state, and if a thread is alerted while an alertable wait, the
wait will return a special value, consume the "alerted" state, and will not
consume any of its objects.
Alerts are implemented using events; the user-space NT emulator is expected to
create an internal ntsync event for each thread and pass that event to wait
functions.
Signed-off-by: Elizabeth Figura <zfigura@codeweavers.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241213193511.457338-16-zfigura@codeweavers.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Elizabeth Figura
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