Detecting when running in an ISR ?

[Joel Sherrill]

On 03/28/2012 11:57 AM, Cudmore, Alan P. (GSFC-5820) wrote:
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> On Mar 28, 2012, at 12:52 PM, Joel Sherrill wrote:
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>> On 03/28/2012 10:48 AM, Cudmore, Alan P. (GSFC-5820) wrote:
>>> On our RTEMS 4.10 project ( m68k/coldfire ), I have an exception handler that does a number of things such as closing files before restarting our processor card.
>>>
>>> This works fine when a task has an exception, but did not work too well when I caught an exception in an ISR.
>>>
>>> I found this macro:
>>>      _ISR_Is_in_progress
>>> Which I can use to detect if the exception handler is running in an ISR. Is that a good enough way to detect that the code is running in the context of an ISR? Or is there a better/more standard way?
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>> http://www.rtems.org/onlinedocs/releases/rtemsdocs-4.10.2/share/rtems/html/c_user/c_user00106.html
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>>     bool rtems_interrupt_is_in_progress( void );
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>> :)
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> Just what I was looking for , thanks!
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> I guess I should stop using "grep" as my manual :)
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I was just thrilled to answer an "Alan question" with a link to a manual.
You usually have much harder questions. :)

-joel
> Alan
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>>> Another option would be to have a high priority exception task running, just waiting to handle the exception clean up activity. The exception handler could use a semaphore to kick off the task.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Alan
>>>
>>>
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>> Joel Sherrill, Ph.D.             Director of Research&   Development
>> joel.sherrill at OARcorp.com         On-Line Applications Research
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joel.sherrill at OARcorp.com        On-Line Applications Research
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