Re: softirq question...

Ingo Molnar (mingo@elte.hu)
Thu, 27 Dec 2001 11:36:14 +0100 (CET)


On Mon, 24 Dec 2001, george anzinger wrote:

> I tried a simple loop till done approach and found some issue in the
> keyboard driver where the tasklet was in the queue but disabled. The
> handler just reinserted it in the queue and flagged it as ready, thus
> looping forever in the boot code. How did you solve this problem?

i've changed the tasklet code so that this loop does not cause problems,
by reusing the SCHED bit:

+ * Being able to clear the SCHED bit from 1 to 0 means
+ * we got the right to handle this tasklet.
+ * Setting it from 0 to 1 means we can queue it.

Ingo

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