Jun-ichi Odagiri wrote:
I'm wondering if the following statement about epicsTimer is correct or not.
#Start of the statement
Any handler of epicsTimer runs, when the timer expired, not in an interrupt
context but in a normal task's (thread's) context.
This goes for the case where the iocCore program is running on vxWorks or
RTEMS, or whatever OS supported in Base.
#End of the statement
Your statement is true; unlike the old vxWorks watchdog timers that we
used to use in iocCore before the OSI layer was added, an epicsTimer's
notify routine or callback is now always executed in thread context.
What I'd like to know is, in other words, if a handler of epicsTimer is
allowed to take semaphores in the handler or not.
I guess the statement is TRUE because I have found an example of a handler
to call printf, in "IOC Application Developer's Guide (Chp.19, Section
10.4)".
Yes it is allowed, but you should be aware of the implications of this:
If the semaphore blocks, then none of the other epicsTimers that use the
same epicsTimerQueue will be executed until the semaphore is released
and the callback/notify routine returns. It is not advisable for a
timer on the system shared timer queue to block for any signficant
period of time in its callback/notify routine. The use of printf() and
similar functions is fine though because it should not block for any
significant period of time.
- Andrew
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