Hello all,
I have been writing a hw driver for SAN. In my
implementation of tcp_sendmsg, I attempt to force
the application to sleep until the data buffer has
been dma-ed:
if (signal_pending(current)) {
return -ERESTARTSYS;
}
// no signal was pending
// timeo == MAX_SCHEDULE_TIMEOUT in this case
timeo = schedule_timeout(timeo);
// signal is always pending
if (signal_pending(current)) {
return -ERESTARTSYS;
}
This works fine for some applications like netcat,etc
but fails for netscape. In debugging this, I observe
that after calling schedule_timeout(), the sigpending
bit appears to be set immediately and thus
schedule() doesn't actually put the process to sleep.
I will continue to look for where schedule_timeout()
or schedule() could affect sigpending. In the mean
time, I am hoping for any hints/suggestions that could
help me solve this issue of why schedule_timeout
appears to affect sigpending. (2.4.7-10smp on x86)
Thanks,
Melkor
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