Hi Jan,

thanks for your response.
Changing the order of cleanup solved the problem!

Regards

Mathias 


> M. Koehrer wrote:
> > Hi everybody,
> > 
> > I have one strange issue with rtnet (latest SVN version and RTAI 3.3 on a
> SMP Pentium 4, kernel 2.6.16):
> > In my application I do regularly UDP reads using rt_dev_recv with a fairly
> long timeout (12 seconds).
> > The timeout is set before using rt_dev_ioctl(...RTNET_IOCTL_TIMEOUT).
> > This works fine.
> > However, while shuting down my application and rtnet while I am still
> waiting for the timeout
> > I get the error message from RTDM: RTDM: device  still in use - waiting
> for release...
> > Up to this point I have performed the following steps:
> > rmmod my kernel module
> > rtifconfig down
> > rmmod rt_eepro100
> > It is not possible any more to rmmod rtipv4 and I have to restart my PC to
> continue.
> 
> Check /proc/rtai/rtdm/open_fildes. There should be at least one stalled
> file descriptor be displayed. You can clean it up with "echo <fd> >
> /proc/rtai/rtdm/open_fildes".
> 
> > If I wait longer than my timeout time, I can shut down everything without
> any problem.
> > 
> > More details:
> > I use a kernel module for UDP communication. 
> > In the cleanup_module I do a rt_task_suspend() followed by a
> rt_task_delete().
> > Then  rt_dev_close(sock) is called. The creation of the socket is done in
> init_module, not in the task!
> 
> That's a more or less broken cleanup scheme (killing tasks at arbitrary
> execution points is always fragile). Take a look at existing examples:
> first close the socket some RT-task is blocking on. This will wake it up
> and let the call return with an error. You can then safely
> self-terminate your task while the triggering non-RT task joins on it
> (or polls for its termination). Doing it the other way around causes
> this kind of deadlock. Hope we will solve this in the future by
> per-process RT-resource cleanup. RTDM and RTnet are at least prepared
> for this.
> 
> Jan
> 
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