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From: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
To: Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: RE: timing out on a semaphore
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 14:53:15 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <XFMail.20010225145315.davidel@xmailserver.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010225224039.W13721@redhat.com>


On 25-Feb-2001 Tim Waugh wrote:
> I'm trying to chase down a semaphore time-out problem.  I want to
> sleep on a semaphore until either
> 
> (a) it's signalled, or
> (b) some amount of time has elapsed.
> 
> What I'm doing is calling add_timer, and then down_interruptible, and
> finally del_timer.  The timer's function ups the semaphore.
> 
> The code is in parport_wait_event, in drivers/parport/ieee1284.c.
> 
> Can anyone see anything obviously wrong with it?  It seems to
> sometimes get stuck.

If it's SMP, have You tried to call del_timer_sync() ?




- Davide


  reply	other threads:[~2001-02-25 22:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-02-25 22:40 timing out on a semaphore Tim Waugh
2001-02-25 22:53 ` Davide Libenzi [this message]
2001-02-25 23:10 ` Andrew Morton
2001-02-27 14:39   ` Tim Waugh
2001-02-27 22:40     ` Andrew Morton
2001-02-27 23:28       ` Tim Waugh
2001-02-27 23:35         ` Davide Libenzi
2001-02-26  9:19 ` Arjan van de Ven

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