Steve Deiters wrote:
> Are Xenomai tasks supposed to outlive the kernel? I have a Xenomai
> task that continues to run after the kernel is shut down.
>
> I have a PowerPC board which has an external watchdog. To keep this
> happy I have a periodic Xenomai task that I create early in the kernel
> startup with an initcall. However, when the kernel shuts down I would
> like to stop/delete the task so that the watchdog will restart the
> processor. Right now it seems that the task continues to run after
> kernel shutdown. If nothing else I can just manually stop it on
shutdown.
>
> I'm not sure if there's a way to hook into the kernel shutdown. I
> have found the exitcall macros, but they seem to be only used for
> module unloading and do not seem to be called on a regular shutdown.
> The initcall is in a board specific startup file. If possible, I'd
> like to keep the task deletion also in the same file. I just do not
> know if there is a hook available for this.
What version of xenomai are you running?
--
Gilles
It is kernel version 2.6.24.6 with Xenomai 2.4.10.
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