I am having a problem of disabled interrupts when i use down() in SMP
environment. I found out the following document in gcom.com web site
regarding the semaphore analysis by David Grothe.
This is what i found ....
"The semaphore algorithm was changed so that it buzzes a lock in the
SMP case of down() and always disables interrupts ".
now my exact problem ....
I am using semaphore in our SCSI/RAID driver (which is part of standard
linux
kernel) which uses down/up semaphore primitives.
I call up() in our ISR to release the semaphore flag . Since down() in SMP
disable interrupts , there is no way my ISR is fired which releases the
flag
and so freezes the system.
i have verified that ISR is not called .
Is there any other way to enable interrupts in down(). I know that it may
side-effects.
The non-SMP version of the driver works fine . even the SMP kernel with one
processor freezes.
TIA
Venkatesh
American Megatrends Inc.,
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