Re: Kernelnewbies Digest, Vol 44, Issue 51

2014-07-28 Thread Vishwas Srivastava
> *To:* Jeff Haran; kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org > > *Subject:* Re: Kernelnewbies Digest, Vol 44, Issue 51 > > > > Hi Jeff, > >yes, your guess is correct. The place i checked in_interrupt() > was a region before which a call to spin_lock_bh() was made. > > So w

Re: Kernelnewbies Digest, Vol 44, Issue 51

2014-07-28 Thread Vishwas Srivastava
2014 at 9:54 PM, Jeff Haran wrote: > > > *From:* kernelnewbies-boun...@kernelnewbies.org [mailto: > kernelnewbies-boun...@kernelnewbies.org] *On Behalf Of *Vishwas Srivastava > *Sent:* Saturday, July 26, 2014 10:07 AM > *To:* kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org > *Subject:* R

RE: Kernelnewbies Digest, Vol 44, Issue 51

2014-07-28 Thread Jeff Haran
From: kernelnewbies-boun...@kernelnewbies.org [mailto:kernelnewbies-boun...@kernelnewbies.org] On Behalf Of Vishwas Srivastava Sent: Saturday, July 26, 2014 10:07 AM To: kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org Subject: Re: Kernelnewbies Digest, Vol 44, Issue 51 Hi All, I have a doubt

Re: Kernelnewbies Digest, Vol 44, Issue 51

2014-07-26 Thread Vishwas Srivastava
Hi All, I have a doubt regarding the threaded interrupt handing mechanism. what is the kernel context of execution while executing interrupt thread. if i check for macro in_irq() or in_interrupt() withing handler thread , my understanding is that they both are going to return me 0 (since