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128 lines
4.1 KiB
Groff
.\" Copyright (c) 2001,2002 John H. Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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.\" $FreeBSD$
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.\"
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.Dd March 22, 2001
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.Dt CRITICAL_ENTER 9
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm cpu_critical_enter ,
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.Nm cpu_critical_exit ,
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.Nm critical_enter ,
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.Nm critical_exit
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.Nd enter and exit a critical region
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.In sys/types.h
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.In sys/systm.h
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.Ft critical_t
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.Fn cpu_critical_enter "void"
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.Ft void
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.Fn cpu_critical_exit "critical_t savecrit"
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.Ft void
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.Fn critical_enter "void"
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.Ft void
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.Fn critical_exit "void"
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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These functions are used to prevent preemption in a critical region of code.
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All that is guaranteed is that the thread currently executing on a CPU will
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not be preempted.
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Specifically, a thread in a critical region will not migrate to another
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CPU while it is in a critical region.
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The current CPU may still trigger faults and exceptions during a critical
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section; however, these faults are usually fatal.
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.Pp
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The
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.Fn cpu_critical_enter
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and
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.Fn cpu_critical_exit
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functions provide the machine dependent disabling of preemption, normally
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by disabling interrupts on the local CPU.
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The
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.Fn cpu_critical_enter
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function returns an opaque value of type
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.Vt critical_t .
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This value must be passed to the
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.Fn cpu_critical_exit
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function when leaving the critical region.
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.Pp
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The
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.Fn critical_enter
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and
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.Fn critical_exit
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functions provide a machine independent wrapper around the machine dependent
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API.
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This wrapper currently saves state regarding nested critical sections as
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well as the
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.Vt critical_t
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value inside of a critical region in per-thread variables.
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Nearly all code should use these versions of the API.
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.Pp
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Note that these functions are not required to provide any inter-CPU
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synchronization, data protection, or memory ordering guarantees and thus
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should
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.Em not
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be used to protect shared data structures.
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.Pp
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These functions should be used with care as an infinite loop within a
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critical region will deadlock the CPU.
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Also, the machine dependent and machine independent functions should not
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be interlocked, and neither pair of functions should be interlocked with
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operations on mutexes, sx locks, semaphores, or other synchronization
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primitives.
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.Sh RETURN VALUES
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The
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.Fn cpu_critical_enter
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function returns an opaque value that must be passed to a corresponding call to
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.Fn cpu_critical_exit .
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.Sh EXAMPLES
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This example demonstrates the use of
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.Fn critical_enter
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and
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.Fn critical_exit
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to guarantee atomic access to the DMA controller.
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.Bd -literal -offset indent
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int
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isa_dmastatus(int chan)
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{
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u_long cnt = 0;
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int ffport, waport;
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u_long low1, high1, low2, high2;
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...
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critical_enter();
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outb(ffport, 0);
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low1 = inb(waport);
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high1 = inb(waport);
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outb(ffport, 0);
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low2 = inb(waport);
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high2 = inb(waport);
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critical_exit();
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...
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}
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.Ed
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.Sh HISTORY
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These functions were introduced in
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.Fx 5.0 .
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