[ECOS] RE : [ECOS] Is JFFS2 thread-safe?

["Vincent Catros" <Vincent.Catros@elios-informatique.fr>]

Hello David,

And thank you for your answer.

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : David Woodhouse [mailto:dwmw2@infradead.org]
> Envoyé : jeudi 27 novembre 2003 01:27
> À : Vincent Catros
> Cc : ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com
> Objet : Re: [ECOS] Is JFFS2 thread-safe?
> 
[...]
> The core JFFS2 code is thread safe, assuming the Linux semaphore and
> spinlock primitives are correctly translated into eCos mutexes and
> preemption blocks. The bit that I haven't paid much attention to
w.r.t.
> locking is the inode cache handling in fs-ecos.c.
> 
> In fact, I suspect that is actually OK because we set the
> CYG_SYNCMODE_FILE_FILESYSTEM flag and hence the fileio layer ensures
> that only one file system method is invoked at a time. It would be
> better to do our own locking and drop that flag though, since it makes
> coordinating the locking with gcthread.c a little nicer.
[...]

If I understand, JFFS2 should be thread safe, but this has never been
tested since multual access is avoided by fileio layer when using
CYG_SYNCMODE_FILE_FILESYSTEM flag?

Am I wrong?

Regards.

Vincent


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