Changeset 96c30c8 in mainline for kernel/generic/include/synch/waitq.h

Timestamp:

2018-06-28T15:45:37Z (7 years ago)

Author:

Jiří Zárevúcky <jiri.zarevucky@…>

Branches:

lfn, master, serial, ticket/834-toolchain-update, topic/msim-upgrade, topic/simplify-dev-export

Children:

331d024

Parents:

82453b29

git-author:

Jiří Zárevúcky <jiri.zarevucky@…> (2018-06-28 15:36:29)

git-committer:

Jiří Zárevúcky <jiri.zarevucky@…> (2018-06-28 15:45:37)

Message:

Turn ipc_poke() into a regular wakeup on the waitq.

With prior behavior of ignoring the poke when no thread is blocking,
a thread could go to sleep just after a poke meant for it and sleep
indefinitely despite there being work to do.

After the change, worst case scenario, thread enters ipc wait, exits
immediately due to a previous poke, finds no work to do and enters ipc wait
again (possibly repeating the spurious wakeup a few times).

File:

• kernel/generic/include/synch/waitq.h (modified) (1 diff)

kernel/generic/include/synch/waitq.h

@@ -82 +82 @@
 extern void _waitq_wakeup_unsafe(waitq_t *, wakeup_mode_t);
 extern void waitq_interrupt_sleep(struct thread *);
-extern void waitq_unsleep(waitq_t *);
 extern int waitq_count_get(waitq_t *);
 extern void waitq_count_set(waitq_t *, int val);