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Subject: Re: [Xenomai-core] [PATCH] Unfreeze timers when debugged target
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To: Gilles Chanteperdrix <gilles.chanteperdrix@xenomai.org>
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Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote:
> On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 11:44 AM, Philippe Gerum <rpm@xenomai.org> wrote:
>> Jan Kiszka wrote:
>>> I expressed my skepticism about this global timer freeze before :->, and
>> Just try debugging periodic code without it...
>>
>> We should have an opt-out mechanism to hide timers from the auto-freeze feature,
>>  that is the real issue yet to be fixed.
> 
> Here is a patch I use at work.
> 

Please merge this one (v2.4 and trunk). At some point (i.e. asap), we will need
an interface to set the NOLOCK bit on the thread's ptimer. The *_set_mode()
calls are good candidates to support that feature.

-- 
Philippe.