Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 3 Feb 2012 10:43:02 +0100 | Subject | Re: [dmaengine] [Q] jiffies value does not increase in dma_sync_wait() | From | javier Martin <> |
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On 3 February 2012 10:24, Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 03, 2012 at 10:22:00AM +0100, javier Martin wrote: >> Hi Russell, >> >> On 3 February 2012 10:10, Russell King - ARM Linux >> <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote: >> > On Fri, Feb 03, 2012 at 09:37:48AM +0100, javier Martin wrote: >> >> I've introduced a couple of printk() to check why this timeout is not >> >> triggered and I've found that the value of jiffies does not increase >> >> between loop iterations (i. e. it's like time didn't advance). >> >> >> >> Does anyobody know what reasons could make jiffies not being updated? >> > >> > Are interrupts disabled? >> >> Apparently not but, how could I check it for sure? Is >> "irqs_disabled()" suitable for that purpose? > > Yes.
"irqs_disabled()" returns 0 in every iteration of the loop. So I guess this means IRQs are properly enabled, but jiffies keeps being fixed.
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