problem with queue_task() and mark_bh()...

[Steven Scholz]

Hi,

I wrote:

> I have a problem with queue_task() and mark_bh().
> ...
> At a later point (namely in the interrupt service rountine this happens:
>
>  /* If we have interrupts pending, then put them on a system task queue.*/
>  if( events == HCF_INT_PENDING ) {
>     /* Schedule the ISR handler as a bottom-half task in the
>      * tq_immediate queue
>      */
>     printk( "Schedule the ISR handler %#lx...\n", lp->task.routine);
>
>     queue_task( &( lp->task ), &tq_immediate );
>     mark_bh( IMMEDIATE_BH );
> }
>
> The problem is now that the queued task lp->task (i.e. wl_isr_handler)
> never get's called! And thus the driver does not work.

When I call run_task_queue(&tq_immediate) right after mark_bh(IMMEDIATE_BH)
then it works.

But I though "run_task_queue(&tq_immediate)" gets called by the kernel
(after every timer interrupt)...


--
Steven Scholz

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