POSIX semaphores across ISR/non-ISR contexts

[Sebastian Huber]

On 2014-06-30 14:46, Ingolf Steinbach wrote:
> 2014-06-27 8:46 GMT+02:00 Sebastian Huber<sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de>:
>> >In case this is used for debugging only, then I would disable interrupts
>> >instead of using a semaphore.
> Is replacing the semaphore-based method by disabling interrupts safe
> in the presence of SMP (the GR712RC has two cores)?

No, in this case use interrupt locks:

http://www.rtems.org/onlinedocs/doxygen/cpukit/html/group__ClassicINTRLocks.html

On SMP configurations the usage of the ISR nest level is questionable.

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