Re: tasklets and finalization

[Duncan Sands]

On Monday 12 November 2001 8:57 am, you wrote:
> On 11-Nov-2001 Duncan Sands wrote:
> > PS: My first thought was to use tasklet_kill, but according
> > to "Linux device drivers" (2nd ed) that may hang if the
> > tasklet isn't pending.
>
> true.
>
> > PPS: Another thought was to call schedule(), hoping that
> > all pending asklets will get run then, but is that reliable?
>
> if you are sure, the tasklet isn't rescheduled within the tasklet
> i THINK this will do it:
>
>         current->policy |= SCHED_YIELD;
>         schedule();
>
>         me

Thanks for thinking about this.  Here's a thought:

...
tasklet_schedule(&my_tasklet);
tasklet_kill(&my_tasklet);
...

Since (as far as I can see) there is no way the
tasklet will run before calling tasklet_kill, this
should just kill any pending tasklets.

Duncan.