lots of malloc(M_WAITOK)'s in interrupt context from camisr
Andrew Gallatin
gallatin at cs.duke.edu
Wed Apr 30 08:20:40 PDT 2003
Poul-Henning Kamp writes:
> In message <16047.59314.532227.475952 at grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>, Andrew Gallatin
> writes:
> >
> >John Baldwin writes:
> >
> > > If you need to do more work in your interrupt routine than just wakeups
> > > and dinking with registers, you can always wake up a software interrupt
> > > handler or some other random kthread to do things that take a long amount
> >
> >Dumb question: Exactly what is one allowed to do in an INTR_FAST
> >interrupt context? Obviously, you can't sleep. But can you call
> >wakeup()?
>
> Calling wakeup() is just about it, but we should actually define it
> more precisely in a suitable man-page.
That would be cool. Since wakeup() uses a spinlock, I assume that
spinlocks are generally OK too..
Drew
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