Ah...simple enough!  One question though...are the xenomai sync services
items and irq functions available for non-RT kernel threads??

-----Original Message-----
From: Philippe Gerum [mailto:r...@xenomai.org] 
Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2012 4:25 PM
To: Terry Fryar
Cc: xenomai-help@gna.org
Subject: Re: [Xenomai-help] RTDM and spi

On 01/05/2012 11:12 PM, Terry Fryar wrote:
> Using the RTDM api with Xen 2.6 to develop a linux driver.
> Basically have an ISR registered using *rtdm_irq_request*()that is 
> triggered from a gpio pin. ISR works fine. Inside ISR, the only thing 
> done is a *rtdm_event_signal*() on an event.
> Then, I have a task created using *rtdm_task_init*() that is waiting 
> on the event using *rtdm_event_timedwait*().
> So far, so good...all works. But, in the task I am making an SPI call 
> after the event is signaled using spi_message_add_tail() and 
> spi_sync() and that's where I get this:
> BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at 
> kernel/mutex.c:278 [ 98.449178] in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid:
-555875760, name:
> vÿÿýÿ¿·½ÿ§ÿÿõ>ÿÿýw¿@ÞÞPÞÞ
> [ 98.458686] INFO: lockdep is turned off.
> [ 98.462811] [<c00572ac>] (unwind_backtrace+0x0/0xe0) from 
> [<c04639bc>]
> (mutex_lock_nested+0x24/0x384)
> [ 98.472501] [<c04639bc>] (mutex_lock_nested+0x24/0x384) from 
> [<c033ca48>] (__spi_sync+0x88/0xd8) [ 98.481730] [<c033ca48>] 
> (__spi_sync+0x88/0xd8) from [<bf007180>]
> (irqdrv_task+0x44/0xd4 [irqdrv])
> [ 98.491149] [<bf007180>] (irqdrv_task+0x44/0xd4 [irqdrv]) from 
> [<c00e93d0>] (xnarch_thread_trampoline+0x20/0x2c)
> [ 98.501845] [<c00e93d0>] (xnarch_thread_trampoline+0x20/0x2c) from 
> [<c00e5adc>] (__xnpod_schedule+0x5cc/0xa54) [ 98.512355] [<c00e5adc>] 
> (__xnpod_schedule+0x5cc/0xa54) from [<fff7febf>] (0xfff7febf) [ 
> 98.520674] Xenomai: suspending kernel thread bf008180 ('irqdrvTask') 
> at 0xc00a92f8 after exception #0x0 I have tried this inside a kthread 
> and it works fine. I can also try the spi stuff without being 
> triggered by an IRQ, and I get the same error. I know this is 
> something simple???

You may not call the regular Linux kernel routines from a real-time context.
You have two kernels running side by side, Linux and Xenomai,
unsynchronized. Your RTDM driver is entering __spi_sync() over a non-Linux
context, this can't work since that context may have preempted Linux
anywhere, including in the middle of what Linux thinks is an atomic section.

Any kernel code you want to call from the real-time co-kernel has to be
adapted to support this. Specifically, you cannot run the regular SPI stack
over a real-time RTDM context.

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-- 
Philippe.


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