Re: stopping a process during a timer interrupt

[Michal Schmidt]

Kay Tiong Khoo skrev:
> On a timer interrupt, I tried to stop the current process by changing
> it's run state to TASK_STOPPED via set_current_state(TASK_STOPPED).
> However, this results in a system hang.
>
> I can't find a way to stop the current process during an interrupt
> context. Does such code exist in the kernel? If not, how does one go
> about implementing it from within a kernel module.

In interrupt context there's no "current process" by definition.

Michal
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