Blown Stack in ISR, i960

[Gerwin Pfab]

Ian,

you're right. Thank you and sorry for the silly question. 
Conclusion: Never write emails after an 8 hour debugging session.

Gerwin

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On 25 Jan 2000, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:

>    Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 18:19:38 +0100 (MET)
>    From: Gerwin Pfab <pb at schenk.isar.de>
> 
>    BUT: every call to rtems_task_resume() decrements
>    Thread_dispatch_disable_level and will (when 0 is reached) call
>    ThreadDispatch() (and _Context_Switch()) and therefore make the Context
>    Switch on the Interrupt stack. So the task that Context_Switch switches to
>    now runs with the Interrupt Stack????!
> 
>    What is wrong with this scenario or is this really possible?
> 
> What's wrong with that scenario is that rtems_task_resume calls
> _Thread_Get, and _Thread_Get calls _Thread_Disable_dispatch.  The call
> to _Thread_Enable_dispatch in rtems_task_resume enables the
> dispatching which it just disabled.  If dispatching was already
> disabled when the call started, it remains disabled.
> 
> Ian
>