1YIELD_TO(9)                      Driver Basics                     YIELD_TO(9)
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NAME

6       yield_to - yield the current processor to another thread in your thread
7       group, or accelerate that thread toward the processor it's on.
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SYNOPSIS

10       int __sched yield_to(struct task_struct * p, bool preempt);
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ARGUMENTS

13       p
14           target task
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17           whether task preemption is allowed or not
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DESCRIPTION

20       It's the caller's job to ensure that the target task struct can't go
21       away on us before we can do any checks.
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RETURN

24       true (>0) if we indeed boosted the target task. false (0) if we failed
25       to boost the target. -ESRCH if there's no task to yield to.
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28Kernel Hackers Manual 3.10         June 2019                       YIELD_TO(9)
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