RTEMS-Users questions to _CORE_mutex_Flush and _CORE_mutex_Surrender

[Joel Sherrill]

Thomas Doerfler wrote:
> Hi,
>
> this question is related to my other mail concerning the ATA subsystem:
>
> I am not quite sure about the behaviour of the two functions
> _CORE_mutex_Flush and _CORE_mutex_Surrender: can a calling task be
> preempted in these functions?
>   

They are only supposed to be called from API level routines which
have thread dispatching disabled.  So they should ready threads and
return to the API caller (rtems_semaphore_XXX) which enables
dispatching and allows the preempt.

I assume you mean tasking preemption.

--joel
> wkr,
> Thomas.
>