On Fri, 2011-06-17 at 13:03 +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> On 2011-06-17 12:58, Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote:
> > On 06/17/2011 11:27 AM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> >> Based on code inspection, it looks like a timer handler triggering a
> >> reschedule in the path xntbase_tick -> xntimer_tick_aperiodic /
> >> xntimer_tick_periodic_inner -> handler can cause problems, e.g. a
> >> reschedule before all expired timers were processed. The timer core is
> >> usually run atomically from an interrupt handler, so better emulate an
> >> IRQ context inside xntbase_tick by setting XNINIRQ.
> > 
> > I do not understand this one either: if we are inside
> > xntimer_tick_aperiodic, XNINIRQ is already set.
> 
> Not if you come via xntbase_tick, called by the mentioned skins also
> outside a timer IRQ (at least based on my understanding of that skin
> APIs). But I might be wrong, I just came across this while checking for
> potentially invalid cached xnpod_current_sched values.

That is ok, ui_timer(), tickAnnounce() and tm_tick() are designed by the
respective RTOS to be called from IRQ context.

> 
> Jan
> 

-- 
Philippe.



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