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ravi.chakram
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while understanding the interrupts, I saw the below line in hardirq.h.
#define SOFTIRQ_OFFSET (1UL << SOFTIRQ_SHIFT)</p>
Can anyone please tell me what is 1UL means in the above line.
Thanks in advance
Regards
Kumar
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ravi.chakram wrote:while understanding the interrupts, I saw the below line in hardirq.h.
#define SOFTIRQ_OFFSET (1UL << SOFTIRQ_SHIFT)
Can anyone please tell me what is 1UL means in the above line.
Thanks in advance
Regards
Kumar
1 Unsigned Long = an "unsigned long" full of ones
Regards
PS: I'm no expert, I might be wrong!0 -
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UL means long unsigned int. 1 is left shifted by SOFTIRQ_SHIFT(8) times, that means value will be
0x00000100.
This macro is used to increment the softirq count in the thread_info->preempt_count at 0x00000100 offset.
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rulingminds wrote:
This macro is used to increment the softirq count in the thread_info->preempt_count at 0x00000100 offset.
Great . But, is it incrementing the count at 0x00000100 or assigning/updating the soft-interrupts value as 0x00000100
My opinion is, it is doing the second one.0 -
No, This is incrementing or decrementing the softirq count. The preempt_count is divided as follows.
For softirq count there are 8 bits(from 8 - 15) in preempt_count variable. So, the variable can be incremented upto 255.
This count says number of levels the softirqs are disabled(number of tymes local_bh_disable() is called) . decremented using local_bh_enable(). See the following code in softirq.c and preempt.h
# define add_preempt_count(val) do { preempt_count() += (val); } while (0)
static inline void __local_bh_disable(unsigned long ip, unsigned int cnt)
{
add_preempt_count(cnt);
barrier();
}
Here, count is 0x100.
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