October 2017
Intermediate to advanced
586 pages
14h 8m
English
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Delays and sleep in the kernel
Without going into the details, there are two types of delays, depending on the context your code runs in: atomic or nonatomic. The mandatory header to handle delays in the kernel is #include <linux/delay>.