[rtems commit] Use EAGAIN for POSIX mq wait in ISR error

Joel Sherrill joel at rtems.org
Fri Jan 24 14:49:32 UTC 2020


Module:    rtems
Branch:    master
Commit:    e22554535796fc29a7ed7c5e2338128e324a621d
Changeset: http://git.rtems.org/rtems/commit/?id=e22554535796fc29a7ed7c5e2338128e324a621d

Author:    Martin Erik Werner <martinerikwerner at gmail.com>
Date:      Sun Jan 19 16:11:38 2020 +0100

Use EAGAIN for POSIX mq wait in ISR error

Modify the status code returned by _CORE_message_queue_Submit() when it
detects a wait about to happen in an ISR (which would be deadly) to
return a status which translated to EAGAIN instead of ENOMEM.

This is only relevant for POSIX message queues, since Classic API message
queues cannot block on send.

The motivation is to match the "most related" errno value returned from
mq_send() and mq_timedsend() according to POSIX, via Open Group:

  [EAGAIN]
      The O_NONBLOCK flag is set in the message queue description
      associated with mqdes, and the specified message queue is full.

or via the RTEMS POSIX users documentation

  EAGAIN
    The message queue is non-blocking, and there is no room on the queue
    for another message as specified by the mq_maxmsg.

Neither of these matches the case ofi avoided ISR wait perfectly, but
they seem to be the closest equivalent, unless it is desirable to keep a
new non-standard error for this case. It is presumed that this is not
desirable.

The previously returned ENOMEM error value is not documented in either
the Open Group or the RTEMS POSIX uses documentation. A companion patch
corrects the documentation to include this error condition.

Based on the discussion in:
https://lists.rtems.org/pipermail/devel/2020-January/056891.html

closes #3857.

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---

 cpukit/include/rtems/score/status.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/cpukit/include/rtems/score/status.h b/cpukit/include/rtems/score/status.h
index 3400255..fe1f0e8 100644
--- a/cpukit/include/rtems/score/status.h
+++ b/cpukit/include/rtems/score/status.h
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ typedef enum {
   STATUS_MESSAGE_INVALID_SIZE =
     STATUS_BUILD( STATUS_CLASSIC_INVALID_SIZE, EMSGSIZE ),
   STATUS_MESSAGE_QUEUE_WAIT_IN_ISR =
-    STATUS_BUILD( STATUS_CLASSIC_INTERNAL_ERROR, ENOMEM ),
+    STATUS_BUILD( STATUS_CLASSIC_INTERNAL_ERROR, EAGAIN ),
   STATUS_MESSAGE_QUEUE_WAS_DELETED =
     STATUS_BUILD( STATUS_CLASSIC_OBJECT_WAS_DELETED, EBADF ),
   STATUS_MINUS_ONE =



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