zx_task_suspend

Summary

Suspend the given task. Currently only thread or process handles may be suspended.

Declaration

#include <zircon/syscalls.h>

zx_status_t zx_task_suspend(zx_handle_t handle, zx_handle_t* token);

Description

zx_task_suspend() causes the requested task to suspend execution. Task suspension is not synchronous and the task might not be suspended before the call returns. The task will be suspended soon after zx_task_suspend() is invoked, unless it is currently blocked in the kernel, in which case it will suspend after being unblocked.

Tasks can be suspended and/or resumed before they are started. If a task is started while suspended, it will enter suspension before executing any code. Similarly, starting a new thread on a suspended process will suspend the thread before it executes any code.

Invoking zx_task_kill() on a task that is suspended will successfully kill the task.

A task cannot suspend itself or any of its parent tasks because it would never receive the suspend token and would be unable to resume execution.

RESUMING

To allow the task to resume, close the suspend token handle. The task will remain suspended as long as there are any open suspend tokens. Like suspending, resuming is asynchronous so the thread may not be in a running state when the zx_handle_close() call returns, even if no other suspend tokens are open.

SIGNALS AND EXCEPTIONS

There are two relevant signals that a thread can assert:

  • ZX_THREAD_RUNNING
  • ZX_THREAD_SUSPENDED

Neither of these will be asserted until the thread is started via zx_process_start() or zx_thread_start(). When a thread starts, it will assert ZX_THREAD_RUNNING whether it is suspended or not, but if it is suspended will then switch to ZX_THREAD_SUSPENDED before executing any code.

The ZX_EXCP_PROCESS_STARTING and ZX_EXCP_THREAD_STARTING debug exceptions will also be sent on start whether the task is suspended or not.

Rights

handle must be of type ZX_OBJ_TYPE_THREAD or ZX_OBJ_TYPE_PROCESS and have ZX_RIGHT_WRITE.

Return value

zx_task_suspend() returns ZX_OK on success. In the event of failure, a negative error value is returned.

Errors

ZX_ERR_BAD_HANDLE handle is not a valid handle.

ZX_ERR_WRONG_TYPE handle is not a thread or process handle.

ZX_ERR_INVALID_ARGS token was an invalid pointer.

ZX_ERR_BAD_STATE The task is already dying or dead and cannot be suspended.

ZX_ERR_NO_MEMORY Failed to allocate memory.

ZX_ERR_NOT_SUPPORTED The calling thread is attempting to suspend itself or one of its parent tasks.

LIMITATIONS

Currently only thread and process handles are supported.