From: mulyadi.santosa@gmail.com (Mulyadi Santosa)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: query regarding kernel daemon
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2011 13:40:35 +0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTik5vvmGZfK6O_qhHbKT6t4LgVh6uw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTim6StdO_DFJC+L=baWXwm25fNm=XA@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 16:28, shubham sharma <shubham20006@gmail.com> wrote:
> The problem I am facing is that when I enter the string the second time, the
> system stalls. I added some sleeps in the code and figured out that when the
> proc function wakes up the daemon, the system stalls.
Typical: you must be doing somekind of busy looping or block while
interrupt is down. And this matter a lot since what running here is
kernel thread/daemon, which operate entirely in kernel space i.e if it
blocks, then the entire OS stalls since most likely scheduling happen
during kernel to user mode transition or voluntarily.
So as a side watch, check the preemption model your kernel use... try
to avoid no preemption...and if you could, switch to full preemption
mode...in this mode, preemption could happen on interrupt-to-kernel
mode transition.
--
regards,
Mulyadi Santosa
Freelance Linux trainer and consultant
blog: the-hydra.blogspot.com
training: mulyaditraining.blogspot.com
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-05 6:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-04 9:28 query regarding kernel daemon shubham sharma
2011-04-04 9:45 ` Daniel Baluta
2011-04-05 6:40 ` Mulyadi Santosa [this message]
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