Re: schedule() and mipsel processor

[Jun Sun <jsun@mvista.com>]

On Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 12:57:49PM +1000, fpga dsp wrote:
> Hi all,
>  
> I may ask a stupid question here but I have problem of calling any functions 
> such as interruptible_sleep_on_timeout, sleep_on ... in a timer handler, the 
> kernel just crash straight away in the function schedule(). Now I go and do a 
> diff between kern/sched.c on i686 source and mipsel source. clearly , they 
> are different. So the question is from kernel programming point of view, the 
> bottom-half of interrupt handler is still considered interrupt handler? 

Correct.  You can't call those sleep functions from timer function.

Jun