I am experiencing big problems using wait queues in a device driver
(module)
on kernel 2.4.3-20mdk (gcc version 2.96).
I dont know if this is the right place to ask for - but its my last hope...
The device driver i write is for a measuring device connected to parallel
port-
so i'm using the parport and parport_pc modules with exclusice access to
the
parallel port. Communication with the device works perfectly with one
exception - i cant use waitqueues - it doesnt matter in which was i try it
(i noticed there were changes to waitqueues in 2.4 kernels)...
the first approach using waitqueues looks like this :
hshppm.c: (the driver)
/* ... */
static DECLARE_WAIT_QUEUE_HEAD( hshppm_isr_digital_wq );
/* ... */
static int device_open( struct inode *inode, struct file *file )
{
/* ... */
init_waitqueue_head(&hshppm_isr_digital_wq);
/* ... */
}
/* ... */
static ssize_t device_read( struct file *file,
char *buffer,
size_t length,
loff_t *offset)
{
/* ... */
interruptible_sleep_on( &hshppm_isr_digital_wq );
/* ... */
}
/* ... */
/* the ISR for the INTs on the parallel port */
/* called from parport_generic_irq() */
void hshppm_isr( int irq, void *handle, struct pt_regs *regs )
{
/* ... */
wake_up_interruptible( &hshppm_isr_digital_wq )
/* ... */
}
When I run this code and execute the read() from userland it does a
segfault
when the module executes the interruptible_sleep_on() - a kernel oops is
recorded in the
log:
May 20 21:01:40 ofen kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer
dereference at virtual address 0000003d
May 20 21:01:40 ofen kernel: printing eip:
May 20 21:01:40 ofen kernel: c0111c4b
May 20 21:01:40 ofen kernel: pgd entry cae50000: 0000000000000000
May 20 21:01:40 ofen kernel: pmd entry cae50000: 0000000000000000
May 20 21:01:40 ofen kernel: ... pmd not present!
May 20 21:01:40 ofen kernel: Oops: 0000
May 20 21:01:40 ofen kernel: CPU: 0
May 20 21:01:40 ofen kernel: EIP: 0010:[sleep_on+35/88]
May 20 21:01:40 ofen kernel: EIP: 0010:[<c0111c4b>]
May 20 21:01:40 ofen kernel: EFLAGS: 00210086
May 20 21:01:40 ofen kernel: eax: cb53e000 ebx: 00200286 ecx:
00200246 edx: 00000039
May 20 21:01:40 ofen kernel: esi: ce071720 edi: 0804b225 ebp:
cb53ff5c esp: cb53ff48
May 20 21:01:40 ofen kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
May 20 21:01:40 ofen kernel: Process dev_test1 (pid: 1842,
stackpage=cb53f000)
May 20 21:01:40 ofen kernel: Stack: ffffffea 00000000 cb53e000 cb53e000
c0111554 cb53ff9c e8be7232 e8becaf8
May 20 21:01:40 ofen kernel: e8beb383 e8becadc d6fd4000 d5e75960
40016000 0000001a ffffffea d5e75960
May 20 21:01:40 ofen kernel: 0000001a bfffeee8 ffffffea ce071720
00000001 bffff698 c012dca6 ce071720
May 20 21:01:40 ofen kernel: Call Trace: [process_timeout+0/72]
[<e8be7232>] [<e8becaf8>] [<e8beb383>] [<e8becadc>] [sys_read+142/196]
[system_call+51/64]
May 20 21:01:40 ofen kernel: Call Trace: [<c0111554>] [<e8be7232>]
[<e8becaf8>] [<e8beb383>] [<e8becadc>] [<c012dca6>] [<c0106f23>]
May 20 21:01:40 ofen kernel:
May 20 21:01:40 ofen kernel: Code: 8b 42 04 8d 4d f8 89 48 04 8d 4a 04 89
4d fc 89 45 f8 8d 4d
i did the init_waitqueue_head() in device_open() when the device is openend
from userland - so this
should not happen...
i tested the above also with the init_waitqueue_head() omitted in
device_open() - cause the
kernel api changes documented in
http://www.atnf.csiro.au/~rgooch/linux/docs/porting-to-2.4.html
say i doesnt need it.
The second approach i tested look like this:
hshppm.c: (the driver)
/* ... */
static DECLARE_WAIT_QUEUE_HEAD( hshppm_isr_digital_wq );
/* ... */
static int device_open( struct inode *inode, struct file *file )
{
/* ... */
init_waitqueue_head(&hshppm_isr_digital_wq);
/* ... */
}
/* ... */
static ssize_t device_read( struct file *file,
char *buffer,
size_t length,
loff_t *offset)
{
/* ... */
unsigned long flags;
DECLARE_WAITQUEUE (wait, current);
wq_write_lock_irqsave(&(hshppm_isr_digital_wq.lock), flags);
wait.flags = 0;
__add_wait_queue(&hshppm_isr_digital_wq, &wait);
wq_write_unlock_irqrestore(&(hshppm_isr_digital_wq.lock), flags);
current->state = TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE;
schedule();
current->state = TASK_RUNNING;
wq_write_lock_irqsave(&(hshppm_isr_digital_wq.lock), flags);
__remove_wait_queue(&hshppm_isr_digital_wq, &wait);
wq_write_unlock_irqrestore(&(hshppm_isr_digital_wq.lock), flags);
/* ... */
}
/* ... */
/* the ISR for the INTs on the parallel port */
/* called from parport_generic_irq() */
void hshppm_isr( int irq, void *handle, struct pt_regs *regs )
{
/* ... */
wake_up_interruptible( &hshppm_isr_digital_wq )
/* ... */
}
Now wonder ! This time the code in device_read() executes - the process
calling
read() goes to sleep ...
But if an interrupt arrives in hshppm_isr() and the wake_up_interruptible()
is executed
the kernel freezes :(.
I also tested the old way of using waitqueues - just:
struct wait_queue *my_wait_queue;
wake_up_interruptible( &my_wait_queue );
interruptible_sleep_on( &my_wait_queue );
This gave me the same segfault as of my first approach at execution of
interruptible_sleep_on() ...
What am i doing wrong ? I have absolutly no idea why other modules
also containg waitqueue access are running without problems on my system
and the module i compiled is permanently crashing the kernel...
other modules running:
NVdriver 630032 12 (autoclean)
emu10k1 44384 0
soundcore 3504 4 [emu10k1]
nfs 73632 5 (autoclean)
lockd 48720 1 (autoclean) [nfs]
sunrpc 59232 1 (autoclean) [nfs lockd]
af_packet 11280 1 (autoclean)
8139too 11696 1 (autoclean)
keybdev 1632 0 (unused)
usbkbd 2912 0 (unused)
input 3232 0 [keybdev usbkbd]
usb-uhci 20672 0 (unused)
usbcore 47248 1 [usbkbd usb-uhci]
ide-scsi 7568 0
supermount 32496 6 (autoclean)
reiserfs 165760 3
sd_mod 11048 0 (unused)
scsi_mod 86036 2 [ide-scsi sd_mod]
I would be very glad if someone can tell me what i do wrong...
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