Sorry, I mean I want to set a bit in a HW Register 1. HW will send an interrupt when setting the register is done. I want my driver code to block until the interrupt is sent from the HW. On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 12:32 AM, m silverstri <michael.j.silverstri@gmail.com> wrote:
In my driver code, I want to set a bit in a HW Register 1. HW will send an interrupt when setting the register is done. I don't want my driver code to block until the interrupt is sent from the HW.
On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 12:06 AM, anish singh <anish198519851985@gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 11:55 PM, m silverstri <michael.j.silverstri@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
I read this article http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/5833 to learn about spinlock. I try this to use it in my kernel driver.
Here is what my driver code needs to do: In f1(), it will get the spin lock, and caller can call f2() will wait for the lock since the spin lock is not being unlock. The spin lock will be unlock in my interrupt handler (triggered by the HW). Wrong design!!!
void f1() { spin_lock(&mylock); // write hardware REG_ADDR += FLAG_A; So here you take spinlock and release in interrupt handler.What if there is no interrupt handler and someone calls this fucntion he will blocked forever.
}
void f2() { spin_lock(&mylock); //... }
The hardware will send the application an interrupt and my interrupt handler will call spin_unlock(&mylock);
My question is if I call f1() f2() // i want this to block until the interrupt return saying settingyou REG_ADDR is done.
when I run this, I get an exception in kernel saying a deadlock " INFO: possible recursive locking detected"
How can I re-write my code so that kernel does not think I have a deadlock?
I want my driver code to wait until HW sends me an interrupt saying setting REG_ADDR is done. Let us know what is your requirement?I am sure there must be a simple way to handle than this magic done here. Explain what are you trying to do in detail and I am sure lot of people will jump to help.
Thank you.
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