Uniprocessor implementation of Nested Mutex problem.

Saurabh Gadia gadia at usc.edu
Thu Aug 6 00:33:14 UTC 2015


For surrender we don't disable thread dispatching for uniprocessor. So is
that the thread can be interleaved?

Thanks,

Saurabh Gadia

On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 9:01 AM, Gedare Bloom <gedare at rtems.org> wrote:

> These functions are called with interrupts disabled. However,
> _CORE_mutex_Seize_interrupt_blocking() enables interrupts, so an isr
> can preempt the thread, but but it will not be interleaved with
> another thread because thread dispatching is disabled around the isr
> enabled section. I don't believe surrender has any such situations.
>
> Gedare
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 9:39 PM, Saurabh Gadia <gadia at usc.edu> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > So on uniprocessor can we assume that a thread calling
> > _CORE_mutex_Seize_body or _CORE_mutex_Surrender never gets preempted or
> > interleaved as if it holds a global lock. Whcih means that we can create
> a
> > JPF model for same using global lock.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Saurabh Gadia
>
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