Re: [Xenomai] [PATCH 1/1] rtdm: get spinlocks to lock the scheduler

[Gilles Chanteperdrix <gilles.chanteperdrix@xenomai.org>]

On 10/12/2012 08:26 AM, Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote:

> In a context where callbacks are called with spinlocks held, it is not
> possible for drivers callbacks to wake up threads without holding any
> spinlock. So, we need a mechanism to lock the scheduler when a spinlock
> is grabbed. As xnpod_lock_sched/xnpod_unlock_sched may be a bit heavy
> weight for this case, we try and reimplement a lighter version.


There is a concurrence issue if, say, xnpod_suspend_thread or
xnpod_reset_thread is called on another cpu while the thread which holds
the scheduler lock is using an rtdm spinlock. I guess the rtdm spinlocks
have to take the nklock to serialize access to the scheduler structures,
so, use xnpod_lock_sched/xnpod_unlock_sched instead of
__xnpod_lock_sched / __xnpod_unlock_sched.

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                                                                Gilles.