On 6/23/07, Oliver Neukum <[email protected]> wrote:
Am Samstag, 23. Juni 2007 schrieb Satyam Sharma:
> * 3. set up a timer and schedule another function to service the
> * interrupt / do what needs to be done then, hopefully the mutex
> * would be uncontended then => *gargh*
You could use schedule_work(). However then why not use it always.
This would make sense if what you want to do is outright trivial.
If you use schedule_work() to pass off work from interrupt context
to process context, then you wouldn't be calling down_trylock()
from interrupt context in the first place (which is what is being
discussed here). You would simply pass off the entire code that
uses the shared data (and wraps a *proper* down() or mutex_lock()
around it, not the _trylock() variant) to the workqueue.
Also, that is precisely my point too. What I'm saying is that it is
generally poor design to be wanting to use the _trylock() variant
of semaphore / mutex in interrupt context. Workqueues _are_ the
preferred mechanism to use for (most) such cases where you need
to do something that may require you to sleep.
Satyam
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