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Subject: Re: [Xenomai] FreeRTOS skin
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To: Gilles Chanteperdrix <gilles.chanteperdrix@xenomai.org>, Matthias Schneider <ma30002000@yahoo.de>, "xenomai@xenomai.org" <xenomai@xenomai.org>

On 05/05/2014 04:03 PM, Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote:
> On 05/05/2014 12:33 PM, Philippe Gerum wrote:
>> - vTaskSuspendAll()/vTaskResumeAll() maintain useless status flags.
>> Copperplate provides __THREAD_S_SUSPENDED in the core status of threads
>> for the very same purpose.
>
> I believe in FreeRTOS vTaskSuspendAll/vTaskResumeAll is more like a task
> lock mechanism than a service suspending/resuming all tasks for real. Of
> course this only provides mutual exclusion on UP.
>
>

Definitely, this is threadobj_sched_lock() in all its glory. A bit of a 
misnomer. So the current implementation could be simplified a lot it seems.

-- 
Philippe.