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Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 00:11:38 +0200
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Subject: Re: [Xenomai-help] rt_alarm_create
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On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 15:37 -0600, Wayne Call wrote:
> There are two rt_alarm_create functions.  One is for the kernel space
> and the other is for user space.  
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> I have a linux driver that has an interrupt service routine.  When the
> driver is loaded using insmod, it executes the rt_alarm_create.  When
> the interrupt is triggered, the interrupt service routine executes the
> rt_alarm_start function.  When the rt_alarm_start function expires, it
> executes the alarm handler code.  All this code is executed in kernel
> space. 
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> What I would like to do is create a user application that executes the
> alarm handler code rather than the linux driver in kernel space.  If
> the rt_alarm_create is executed in kernel space, is there a way to
> pass the alarm descriptor to user space?

You should use rt_alarm_create() from user-space. There is no binding
possible between alarms created in kernel space to userland.

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> Wayne
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Philippe.